Peace is practised, not enforced
Peace and justice cannot be built with the point of a gun. Violence begets violence. Small-scale coercion may be useful in some circumstances, but as the main method for nation building it is futile.
Surely this is one lesson from the war on Iraq. Six months after the war ended, violence is increasing in the country, not abating.
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In short, this was a war that there was no good reason for fighting, but which is having and may well have negative repercussions for years to come. If the coalition was truly interested in rebuilding Iraq, it could have started by dropping the 12-year-old sanctions that left millions of ordinary people either dead or in dire straits, but did little to affect the ruling elite.
But the real dangerous naïvetè comes from those who want to fight their way to peace. Following such a route may please their friends in the arms industry, but it will sow nothing but resentment. And the final fruit of that resentment is likely to be mass destruction on a scale beyond our imagining.
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God gave us free will for a reason. That reason is that we should strive to do good to others and encourage others to walk the paths of peace and righteousness as well. Ultimately, that is the only hope for humanity.
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