Look for the female general!
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infomeduse.ch)
by Christian Campiche,* Lausanne
(9 February 2024) The future of man is the woman. Well recognised, Aragon!1
When men destroy each other on the battlefields of the world, will the vision become reality?
When will that be?
Look for the woman general! She is the one who holds the sceptre now.
There is a female general in Brussels. In the Federal Council too. She is even the President of the Swiss Confederation! Both promote the purchase of fighter planes and receive military chiefs from warring countries.
There are even more female generals in the organisation charts of the big armies. I so wish they would announce the end of war, the end of all wars.
Can this world really be taken seriously? On entering the heated arena, Cabrel’s bull raises its head.2 The bullfighter looking at him is none other than a dream woman dressed from head to toe in a soldier’s uniform. You would think she was posing in front of the camera of a major Hollywood production. The cover of the current issue no. 4 of the magazine “Femina”3 devotes an entire dossier to these “Ukrainian women in combat”. According to the magazine, there are “more and more of them” taking part in the war effort.
“They will forge axes from their swords and sickles from their spears.”
Such was the prophecy of Isaiah. It seems we are still a long way from that.
| * Christian Campiche, born in 1948, is a Swiss writer, journalist and musician. He is the founder, director and editor-in-chief of infoméduse, a Swiss online newspaper for information and reflection. Christian Campiche is the author of several essays and historical novels. He is a former president of impressum, the largest journalists’ organisation in Switzerland, and is committed to the professional and ethical representation of journalists’ interests. |
Source: https://www.infomeduse.ch/2024/01/28/cherchez-la-generale/, 28 January 2024
(Translation «Swiss Standpoint»)
1 a famous verse by the French author Louis Aragon in «Le Fou d’Elsa» (1963) that has become a maxim.
2 «La Corrida» is the best-known song by French chanson singer Francis Cabrel (*1953). In his pithy lyrics, the artist denounces this practice when he says: “Quand la corrida avance, c’est l’humanité qui recule” (When the bullfight goes ahead, humanity falls behind).
3 Femina: Women’s magazine for French-speaking Switzerland published by Tamedia.
