How long would it take to read all the words written about
the horrors of war? Or to watch all the films depicting wars and their human
and material devastation? If all the bodies of all the men, women and children
destroyed by war were piled on top of another, would we have a Mt. Everest of
human flesh and bone?
Why does war continue to persist when we know its awful
consequences? Why do the elders continue to throw young men and women into the dangers
of conflict? Why do we keep producing Hitlers of all degrees and nationalities?
Why do religious wars result in behaviors that are the antithesis of what the
religions stand for?
Are there no human ideals that are higher than the motives
of war? Why are the believers in these ideals and their persistent voices so
often silenced?
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