The End of Yahya Sinwar

Do you recall the brilliant “Dawn of Man” scene in 2001, A Space Odyssey? We see hominids in a barren landscape, huddling in terror by night, grunting and foraging by day, scratching their fleas. Then, in the shadow of the Monolith, a squatting ape picks up a bone. He cocks his head this way and that, staring at the thing as an insight gathers. Then he …