A BRIEF NOTE ON WAR
War is not the end of problems.
It is their beginning. It creates
hardest existential problems that cry for instant solutions but linger on unsolved
for months, even years.
Some wars may be holy, as the one
sanctioned by Lord Krishna in The Mahabharata, however, most of them are
unholy and should never, never be waged.
In modern times with most
destructive weapons available to warriors, war should be declared illegal and
the one who indulges in it should be
awarded severest possible punishment.
Nations should be allowed to
fight logically rather than militarily.
War, says American Clergy Robert Hall, (1764-1831) is nothing less than
a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost
all the virtues are excluded and in which almost all the vices are included.
According to Elihu Root
(1845-1937) who was Secretary of War under 32nd American President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
“War comes today as the result of one of three causes; either actual or threatened
wrong by one country to another, or suspicion by one country that another
intends to do it wrong…or, from bitterness of feeling, dependent in no degree
whatever upon substantial questions of difference ….The least of these three
causes of war is actual injustice. “
And finally in this short, rather
a very short note on a most important subject , the opinion of the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): “ As long as war is
regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will
cease to be popular.”
26th February 2022 G.R.KANWAL
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