"Consolation… etc.

During the Cold War era, the poor of the world treated the Soviet plague with the American cholera. Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a crossfire where the saviors of civilization are bombing us from all sides in the name of an improbable crusade against terrorism.

From now on, we shall know peace, for we have Obama controlling Mecca and Putin watching over our “toilets.”*

What is to be done? Art can do nothing against explosives, but it can console us for the stupidity of the powerful."

* “We’ll whack them (the terrorists) even in the toilets.” (Putin, 1999)

— Hassan Musa, 2015