…The Answer is Within You!
Love…
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Declare war on it, Cherie.
Declaring war is something I would never do, it isn’t in my nature. There is always a better way. If war was declared on me though, of course I would defend myself…
Your 2nd sentence reveals the problem. If someone attacks you then unfortunately war IS the answer. If war had not been chosen as the answer to the Nazis, where would we be? I’m afraid such statements as “war is not the answer” are too simplistic for this real and often nasty world.
The wars that you talk about are a choice, a choice by those who are in power to maintain hold over that power. Wars are always manufactured, for various reasons. Recently nations in the western world have been interfering (warmongering) in other countries, to maintain their balance of power or to try to keep control over resources and their power base.
This is a cycle that repeats itself throughout history. It is all totally unnecessary because there are enough resources to go round… But absolute power corrupts and leads to irrational thoughts.
Exactly. And if enough irrational, mad or bad people think war is the answer then, sadly, for the rest of us war will have to remain a possible answer too, as you yourself say, when you say that if war was declared on you then you would defend yourself, that is… you would choose war as your answer to someone declaring war on you. You say “there is always a better way”, but immediately demonstrate that there isn’t always a better way. Unfortunately.
The number of people that are not irrational, mad or bad is greater than those who are.
I said I would defend myself, that does not mean that I would choose war (as a defence) and that would not be my first response (it would be a very last resort). My first response would be diplomacy, which in my opinion is a better way. Yes I know my words sound simplistic and that things are far more complex than my basic explanation. But I do stand by my statement ‘there is a better way’.
You may feel I am being pedantic here, but it is important. You say you would only choose war as a last resort. therefore you accept that there are circumstances in which war may have to be the answer. Most of us, myself included, would only ever choose war as a last resort, but we have to admit to ourselves that the resort must be there. Sadly, attacks by violent regimes can make war the only available resort. Anyway, I think I have made the point I wished to make now.
I do understand your point
I hope you understand mine about the western world meddling and interfering in other countries affairs when the other country has no military threat to the western world. Those other countries are fighting between themselves. The western world only ever intervenes if those waring countries have resources essential to the west or the country is an ally… Some violent administrations are completely ignored!
Of course it isn’t just the western world that plays these games! It is like a game of chess!
My goodness… I totally and vehemently oppose the current military interventions by my country and others in far away lands. They do not fight in my name, but that is a different issue entirely from the blanket claim in the title. If some nasty regime starts lobbing missiles my way then unfortunately war may well have to be the answer, and it is misty-eyed naivety to say it would never need to be, and that the answer for a better way would lie within me, even as the nutters kept firing their missiles or their whatever. But then, in relation to the disputes in the far-away lands, I am afraid that for the native population war may have to be the answer to oppose lunatics who think it’s ok to put bullets in the heads of young girls who just want to go to school. I’d be interested to see you trying your “diplomacy” out on these characters.
War is not the answer…
But for some reason those in power (I think those are the lunatics you mention), as I mentioned in my previous thoughts in our conversation seem to find it acceptable to start wars.
Religious nutters are another form of controlling power. They also start wars. It is all about controlling people the serfs/minions as they see them.
The number of people that are not irrational, mad or bad is greater than those who are.
Until people realise that and that they are in the majority, things won’t change. I know people will never realise that. People don’t want war (I am talking about mass conflicts here) it is inflicted on them. They think their leaders government or church/religion are catering for their best interests. People feel the need to be led (and told what to think) and they fall in line even if they don’t like it and grumble a lot about what they don’t like.
Human nature…
It is definitely worth a whole discussion like this, Cherry! Too bad we don’t all blog4peace every single day. But then, maybe some of us do?
I think quite a few people do, they just don’t declare it in such a way
Love is all you need. ;o)
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