One thing that I have read in the old Plain Truth Magazine was a quote of that American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and he said Its only those who neither fired a shot nor hear the groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood. more vengeance …War is hell! And looking at the reality now, this quote resonates louder and more relevant than ever.
From the 1980s I have seen footages and read stories of War. Then, it was simply depiction via Radio Broadcasts and colored pictures from Newsweek, Time, Asiaweek and Life Magazine. Up to this very day it seem that Man has not lost appetite for wars and it had grown in intensity in exponential degrees.The said deadly conflicts are mostly unfolding in foreign soil, most of whom are deadly and at times long drawn . The wars of our time of the Latin translation says , Bella Nostri Temporis ,had been quite a regretful thing.
The failure of countries to resolve conflict and religious intolerance, to me, had been the primal war-starter.
They are not just battles between armies; they are ruptures in the lives of ordinary people—families torn apart, children growing up in fear, and communities erased in the name of power or ideology. This time around it’s also about OIL.
Yet, its true, Wars are sad realities . Why are we sad? The human lives lost in the crossfire as combatants and innocent bystanders weigh heavy in my heart. And that economic devastations are true, even then.
When Man allows its beastly nature rule over reason, it creates a regrettable decision, it sheds off its humanity and become a violent animal, unbridled by morality, willing to kill and annihilate its fellow humanity. And that my friend is the reason that Wars create, losers, because a killer is cursed and that in one way or another, the leader of the war must deal with a reckoning of sorts, it is really, really sad!
