At first it seemed to me that ex-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad coming down like a Tun of bricks last year on his successor and former allies in Umno, while setting up his Perdana Global Peace Organisation to outlaw war, were somewhat contradictory concepts.

But now I see my error.

The old warrior was and is simply behaving his old belligerent self and still, in his customary take-no-prisoners style, attacking everyone and everything he's peaced-off with, including war itself and those whom he somewhat selectively categorises as war criminals.