I was wondering if the United Nations (UN) has been able to prevent/stop any wars at all. For sure they could not bring peace for:
- Tamils in Srilanka
- Tibetans in China
- Afghan women in some parts of Afghanistan
- Kashmiris from Pakistan/India
- Iraqians either when Saddam ruled or when US attacked them (No debates please on whether this is right or wrong)
- Iran/Palestinian problems
Reading about the recently intensified war of Srilanka vs LTTE and the thousands of harmless civilians getting killed, I was reminded of a conversation in the book "The dogs of war" which goes something like:
Wars are made by egotistic people on power, with terrible impact on common people lives. The winners write the history in whatever ways to boost their ego and fame, often projecting the losers of war as the most evil reincarnation of Satan.
These are not the exact words, but is something on these lines. The author will cite Adolf Hitler as an example of this, how Hitler has a bad reputation in history books across the world.
These words of Frederick Forsyth are so true that I believe organizations like UN, though started with noble goals like world-peace, can only slow down things but are incapable of stopping people at power, from abusing it to gain personal glory.
I was also reminded of another thought, whose source I forgot. Humans as a species have become so fitter, that they can be destroyed only by each other. So we are inventing modern ways to reach human extinction faster with things like cluster bombs, chemical weapons etc. I am not sure if there will be a third world war, but there will be no fourth world war, as humans would've become extinct by the third.
I was told by some of my European colleagues about the angry emotions of some non-native europeans, (immigrants/refugees of wars) when they hear about bad things in their homeland. I just wish peace and safety for everyone and not any other life getting injured by the Dogs of War and emotions of the affected people. As a politically powerless human being there is nothing more that we (me and most of my blog readers) can do except Hoping for a peaceful tommorrow.
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