and the US harps endlessly on Saddam's campaign against the Marsh Arabs... pot criticising kettle, ad infinitum.

this extirpation of diversity in the ethnosphere mirrors the extirpation of diversity in the biosphere:  more of that radical and brutal simplification that leaves us every year less robust, with fewer options in our biotic and cultural pockets to deal with an unknown future.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...