The War To Stop Is The Next One

The Beat · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 359

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WorldNews Guest Writer Paul Forest.
Starting a war requires little more than a basic form of primeval intelligence. Stopping a war, however, may call for the concerted dedication of many superior human minds. It is consequently a simple but undeniable deduction that he who initiates a conflict is not likely to be the one to bring it to a timely end.

The savagery in war is perhaps the point of separation that is needed today to cause civilized beings to take notice and hope that some intervention will soon occur. It often does, though world politicians tend to wait for the conflict to be categorized as a genocide, before tackling the matter in ad hoc committees, which then refer the matter to permanent committees. They, in time, may generate some diplomatic maneuvers following which, warnings are issued, through proper channels of course, and some military forces may flex some muscles, prior to the matter being referred back to diplomats and politicians.

History is not a teacher, otherwise we would have learned something from it, but the cliché of "History repeats itself", clearly suggest that too often nothing is gained from having lived through the experience in the first instance. History is a journal, a diary of the politics, wars and loves of the powerful and their followers.

The politics of the Biblical era were seldom wasteful of time. You either ran things or took orders. The scribes that later wrote about those times could not refer to specific dialogues leading to political or diplomatic solutions, since there were none. All leaders were "Deciders", equally subject to making harebrained decisions as some leaders are today

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

There is volumes of history books on the subject of warlords, gang leaders and terrorist chiefs, the people that make most of the violence happen. It's not like they could just push a button and make their bad guys go away. In many cultures, the process moves a lot more slowly and involves lots of talking, coffee, promises, deceit and drama. Some felt an end to the vengeance killings was necessary. Making this happen is the next crucial battle in any war.

War is a horrible thing, should never happen and everyone agrees on this. However, there will ALWAYS be war. If you think that war will just go away if everyone turns into some sort of "Holy Roller" for the religion of there choice you are very misguided, naive and have another thing coming. The best way to avoid war is to be strong enough that you don't have to fight. Sadly, the world is full of blind idealists so people like Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Stalin... (the list is too long to post here) can rise to power and wreak havoc on humanity while people politely ask them not to. There are evil people in the world. Pretending there isn't won't make them go away!

There is no question that we have made many mistakes in this campaign, some of them small, some of them major. Historically, I don't think there has been a single war we have participated in, either won or lost, which has not had its share of grievous errors.

If we withdraw and let them win there will be two very dangerous consequences the lesser being an emergence of terrorist attacks across the world and particularly on the US. The September 11 attacks were not provoked and there is no reason to believe that terrorists will not be eager to repeat this. The civilized world can not live with this and ultimately we will have to return and remove it. I doubt it will be easier the second time around.

The cold war, in a new version, would very likely return if we don't come out the winners in the end.

So the stakes are high but the enemy can be beaten. America was not made by people who fear risk or who are satisfied in defeat.

The fight against terrorism has been going on since the very beginning and is far from over yet. Take heart in knowing the fact that in every great battle the forces of equality and morality have won the day but it has never been easy.

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