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The Irony of It All

Date: Friday, December 15, 2023 8:58 AM EST

I was reading this morning and Mahatma Gandhi was quoted as saying: "I am fighting for nothing less than world peace.  If the Indian movement is carried to success on a nonviolent Satyagrahha basis, it will give a new meaning to patriotism and, if i may say so in all humility, to life itself."

What i find ironic is the fact that many of the leaders that were around after World War II (e.g., Churchill, Kennedy, Gandhi, Einstein) talked about and dreamt about "world peace".  That was when world peace could only be seen in a dream.

Yet, today when "world peace" is right within our grasp, no leader is talking about "world peace".

Now, that is either ironic or sick.  One of the two.

 

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The Good Doctor 11 months ago Member's comment

I don't see how we can have world peace as long as we have the war mongers that are constantly pulling the strings to fuel more war.  Putin, Iran, etc.  For example,  all these proxy terorrist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen are all controlled, trained, and funded by Iran.  Take out Iran and you will be much closer to world peace.

Jim Boswell 11 months ago Author's comment

Your response, itself, sounded "war mongering".  You cannot have world peace if your leader wants to kill the other side.  P.S.  Different leaders have different powers of persuasian.

The Good Doctor 11 months ago Member's comment

It is the good kind of war mongering.  If you had a chance to take out Hitler before he murdered 11 million peope in the Holocaust, and before he started WW2, killing millions more, wouldn't you?  Or should we have tried to persuade him by doing nothing?  Because that was how the world initially responded and look what happened.

Sometimes the neighborhood bully will keep taking until someone makes him stop.

Jim Boswell 11 months ago Author's comment

Sounds like Netanyahu to me.   He seems to be the kind of good war mongerer you seem to adore.

If you want to take out Hitler, i have a better candidate for you--and he lives here in the U.S.