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What's War? Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by Jose Menacho Galiano, Peru Feb 12, 2003
Peace & Conflict   Opinions

  

Since people have governed this blue planet, battles and wars became a natural reaction of the human race for saying: “I’m the strongest and most powerful than another.” When societies became more “Civilized” the frontiers reached as masters and servants. Then human behavior and an adventure spirit took away human boundaries for finding more territory and treasure that satisfied their ambitions.

Humans were committed with a large list of crimes in our history. A billion of people have died, a great amount of blood paved that way, a wide diversity of cultures and natural resources were extinguished in the name of “Prosperity”. In the other hand, entire populations were killed by hunger, with their rights trampled by the law of the jungle, that of “the most developed societies.”

In present time, when years and decades have passed people still do not distinguish the consequences of war. How many holocausts do humans needs for their eyes to open? How much blood does “Mother Earth” needs to crash as a worldwide catastrophe? How many “peace” voices need the leaders from one side to the other for thinking smart?

I think wars were built only by national or economical groups interests: many times for conquering more territories and increasing their power as a nation, country, or continent; also for riches at the expense of poor or 'undeveloped' countries. They also defend an economical system that brings "a high standard of living" for few ones in spite of other discriminated groups.

Countries that promote wars are totally indifferent to another countries set of rules, when they are not the same as their own. In other words, they only defends their destiny for being the masters of someone else and conquering new markets for their own benefit.

War is only an excuse for attacking and defending their paradigms. War means oppression. War means terrorism. War means guerrilla. War means a big Lab for experimenting technological war stuff and for reaching new markets into war industry. But war also means the people’s reaction – shouting about "PEACE".

Who hasn’t read about conquerors, victims, generals, or pacifists? A long list of personalities, across our history, that fought and defended a particular position between war and peace.

New generations have more moral arguments for discussing and defending a particular vision about "War," because they aren’t totally involved into the worldwide political rules about world government. They hope for a new order. I mean a new society that involves all human groups into "One World" (Not Three) because “Planet Earth” is totally enough for all of us.

When this thinkers and leaders will grew up in the field of political destiny rules. The world can be changed for good. Pacifism movements, in the past, also were protested, years were passed and nothing has changed dramatically, but this new generation has more reasons for acting now, because our world is nowadays on the border line between "Prosperity" and "Poorest," one of the big reasons for building "Wars".

We are at the end of an era of oppression. Sure, world needs a chance to change in a “real democracy”, but more importantly, in peace and love.





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Jose Menacho Galiano


I am living in the great country of Peru. I am someone who wants to express my thoughts to a great and lovely audience like TIG. I am someone who only wants to share their love with a world that only needs a hope of living.

Thanks for reading me.

Jose
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