Irregardless of the outcome, or the reasons for it's inception, war is in itself a failure. It is the failure of governments to provide for the true security of it's people. It is only through education, economic stability and respect for personal freedom and self-determination that any government can provide any long lasting and true security for it's own people. It is only by promoting the same for all nations that security can be achieved in the world.
War is a failure of nations to cooperate for the betterment of all nations rather than the myopic concentration of power within their own man-made borders. There is more than enough land, food, wealth and natural resources to properly care for every man, woman and child on this planet.
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War is, above all, the failure of human beings to acknowledge that all human beings ARE human beings. In the end, it is each of us refusing to see the other as a brother and sister that ultimately leads to war. It is our refusal to acknowledge and celebrate our differences as examples of the rich diversity of our Creator, and instead using these differences as a source of separation and adversity that ultimately leads to war.
Perhaps this war could have been avoided, but it would only have been put off until another day because we have not succeeded as human beings, nations or governments in creating a world where peace can endure.
If you want an end to war, burn the flags of indifference, intolerence and hatred within your own heart. Take the energy you exert to protest the war and use that energy to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and promote respect for all cultures and beliefs.
If you don't want war in your name, stop providing the ammunition. Poverty, suffering, brutality, hunger, sickness and hatred have been going on for a very long time. Don't wait until it finally erupts into violence to express your outrage. Rage at the causes within your own heart.
We have all created the world we live in in some way. If we do not like what we see, we need to make different choices. When we act in anger and fear, we create an angry and fearful world.
When we are indifferent toward the suffering of anyone on this earth, the suffering grows and spreads until you can no longer be indifferent because it has finally come to you. Then we either retaliate with violence or pompously protest the inhumanity of violence, when all along it was our long indifference to suffering that brought the violence to a head.
You can point your fingers outwardly for the cause of war, but as the old expression goes, when you point one finger out, three are pointed back at you.
This war will end. All wars do...or we do. It did not begin with the invasion of Iraq. It began with Cain and Abel. Since then, every death has been a death of a brother. Until we all see that, there is no hope for the world.
