>I have selfish concerns about the violence on the subcontinent as well.
So do I. My concerns started in the common holy lands and have become ever broader as the spiral of hate and inhumanity that has begun to suck the life out of understanding and compromise.
An 'eye for an eye' chants the business man in on the streets of Jerusalem, 'retaliation at all costs' cries the homeless militant in reply. And thus, hate feeds hate; death amounts to more death; the bodies pile up.
You can't fight fire with fire and you can't fight terror with war - because war is terror. We all know this, but most disregard it. It's the school boy's 'He started it' syndrome. Except this time it's our world, these boys are not playing with not their lunch break.
Those who have the power, be it the Indian police, the Israeli government, or the British and American governments - all condone this violence by their country against others, or within their own territories. The U.S. and U.K. politicians will even try to convince us that we, citizens of the country, and/or the world at large, that we are serviced by these acts of passive (selling of weapons) and active aggression and should support them their efforts. Not me. They are all too happy to watch the strong oppress the weak. Happily watch as mines, bombs, and guns are funnelled to places where they can abuse and ruin life. And this is just the start. Now the military machines are gearing up for an offensive on, well, on what? On evil? No, life's not black and white - as much as simpletons would like to have you believe. So a war on what then, on a shadowy figure of terror, only to leave in their wake another third world country devastated twice-over and rid of one tyrant to be replaced by another – how gratifying.
Be sure of this: the more that is attacked the more enemies will arise, and that is clearly the very goal of many in power. The U.S. government and those that stand beside are recruiting enemies all across the globe for a great showdown.
And why not, the world had a comparatively quiet fifty years or so. Things have been forgotten - so let's all take the plunge. WWIII is slowing rounding the corner and seemingly, most want it. After reading about the barbaric ways in which the violence in the subcontinent has been unfolding, this as the ultimate outcome seems rational. If ordinary humans can be so horribly ruthless in their violence without weapons, imagine what the outcome of years of astounding research into imaginative weapons and brainwashing soldiers will amount to.
