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To the pragmatists who like to point out—quite untruthfully by the way, but let that pass—that in spite of all General Gowon did win the war there is only one answer and it contains a warning: so did General Franco.

[']What of all these intellectuals we hear so much about with all their pseudo-socialist jargon? We used to laugh at those phonies when I was with Nkrumah. So what happens when something anti-social happens and threatens to break up the nation. Why do we never hear them at the time of the event?'
'You won't ever hear them,' I said. 'They are enjoying the anguish of having to decide between two evils.'

All crimes must be investigated, peace time or war time.