War and Peace

On Monday we will be observing MLK day. Before him there was MKG (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) known as Mahatma, the Great Soul. They showed the power of truth and non-violence. It may be a slow process, but it wins at the end against the worst and the most violent enemies. But the world fails to learn.

War is uncivilized. War is not a long-term solution. War may bring false glory to one side, but brings disaster to the other side creating generations of cynics. But they continue to raise barbaric war killing people, maiming many for life, creating more orphans in a harsh world, making poor even poorer, robbing individual freedom, planting seeds for unofficial slavery.

The world makes mockery of MLKs and MKGs of the world. They have parades and speeches and holidays in their name. They fly fighter planes above the parade route to show (dis)honor. They shade crocodile tears in their name for fairness, justice, love, brotherhood, etc. etc. If they only understood these few martyrs, they would quietly raise a different kind of peaceful war against poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, inequality, etc. making barbaric war irrelevant. They would try to save the living dead first before worrying about the lives of the unborn. They would respect differences than demanding strict conformity. They would respect the concept of "live and let live". They would love people and use "things" and not the other way around.

Unfortunately, today there are no MLKs, no MKGs who defeated the enemies without raising a sword, but armed with only love and truth. They gave their lives so that others could live in a little better world.