Uganda, April 28 -- The world, at odds with itself, appears to have cast itself in the unhappy role of outrider to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

You recall those mythical yet very real hooded horsemen (this word is not gender-neutral, women are not historically pestilential), they are four forbidding biblical figures who appear in the Book of Revelation.

According to biblical lore, if you may, they are revealed by the unsealing of the first four of the seven seals.

Each of the horsemen represents a different facet of the apocalypse: conquest, war, famine, and death.

However, with war serving as the matrix of human suffering in current affairs, the four horsemen may be combined into one. In this sense, war is not a unilateral ph...