Im starting to think that......Follow

What does this have to do with pastry?

I could have posted links to loads of pictures of Palestinian, and other middle eastern (from all over in fact) kids dressing up as suicide bombers and waving ak47's about, but we've all seen those.. that wasn't what I was pointing out.

The point of my post, and believe it or not, most of my posts, is to try and illustrate my belief that, for whatever reasons, 'we' in the west, have decided that our morality is somehow more lofty than 'their' morality.

Somehow 'we' the people, and by that I mean 'all' of us on planet earth, need to come to an understanding, that 'we' all share a finite space. That space is getting more crowded by the day. If 'we' dont finda way of co-operating, we are doomed to keep following the same cycles of conflict that have plagued 'us' since forever.

Trouble is, we got more destructive capabilities than ever before, and if we keep allowing ourselves to be put in lil boxes marked 'white', 'black, 'western', 'eastern', 'moslem', 'christian', whatever, we are fooling ourselves into believing that we have good reason to keep killing each other. This will only lead to more and more conflict, with escalating huge losses of life on all sides, eventually culminating in us bombing ourselves back to the stone-age.. The only people who are benefitting from this, are the people who are making a healthy financial gain out of it.

I can't see any good coming from dropping bombs on people, or teaching our kids that the poeple who live over the river from us, are somehow monsters who want to kill us. War has never solved a problem. the situation in the M.E. isn't gonna be solved with bombs (from either side). Dialogue is the only way.trouble is, theres not much profit in dialogue. Its a lot more profitable to keep us all at each others throats...

I know that this will be ridiculed by some people here, who think that all 'muzzies must die', but even they, must be beginning to see that all this slaughter is only feeding itself, becoming some sort of self sustaining loop of hatred, with no possible outcome, other than more and more hatred and killing.

Or perhaps they believe that repeating the same over and over is somehow gonna lead to a different outcome than all the other times it was tried..... sadly for all of us, history tells a different story.

Paulsol, I completely agree.

The whole history of international relations has been based on a rapport de force, it's always been about who can kill/defeat/conquer whom. And these bad habits take a very long time to change.

Violence is always the easy way out. It's quick, easy, allows people to keep up their moralistic one-sided view of the world without being challenged. It appeals to the most basic instincts of man.

And people always go for the easy solution.

Like yous ay, the world is getting "smaller", the population bigger, and the ressources and space are finite. There erally is only one solution to all this which is a tiny bit less worse than the others, and it's to have a proper multinational organisation that acts as World Governemnt on certain worldwide issues: Peace and security, trade, the environment, if we were to keep it to a minimum.

The situation today is the same pattern as when European states were fighting each other every other day. It only stoppe when we created the EU, which for all its imperfections, has enabled the longest period of peace between European states in history. No mean feat.

I'd say that thing that stopped the Europeans from fighting was the fact that Germany went and rolled over most of Europe with their **** steam-roller and shut everybody up. The EU wasn't formed until like 1992.... maybe you're thinking of the UN?