It looks like there will soon be an attack on Afghanistan. The latest on
CNN is what type of jets and bombers they'll be sending. So the next
quesion I have is what can be done in the future to avoid the same
situation.
Derrick said: "terrorism is a global problem, just like global warming is a
global problem."
I agree, and I think it has to be dealt with globally.
Terrorism is rooted in hatered. One could sit and list off all the reasons
why people hate the US for hours. But beyond that, why is there so much
hate between nations in the world? I think it starts off with nationalism.
Every country operates in order to make the best results for itself.
Everything is done in its own interest. One country's interests get in the
way of anothers and conflict occurs. Next is jealousy. Countries may be
jealous of other richer nations and this also results in hate. The world's
resources are so unevenly spread its hard to describe. I won't call
Americans greedy, but they are accustomed to a lifestyle in which more is
better, and the one with the most is the best. Is the world short of
resources? No, there's more than enough to go around, if it were properly
distributed. The only way that I can see this happening would involve a
drastic change in the way that everybody thinks. I think the answer is
complete globalization of all government. Pretty ridiculous right? I think
so too. But the only way to productivly work towards a better world is to
work as one world. There has to be a governing body above all nations.
Instead of like the now, where you've got all the seperate nations coming
together and making the UN, reverse it and have a world gov't that splits up
into all the different countries. Not only this, but everyones attitude has
to change from "my country first" to "the world first". It would be similar
to a country that splits itself up into states or provinces. Each province
deals with its own internal affairs, but it works under the eye of the
federal government.
I don't think this is somehting that could happen anytime soon, but maybe in
the next hundred years or so... We should take a look at Star Wars,
everyones talking about planets as a whole, nobody mentions different
nations within them. Maybe if the world came under attack by some alien
planet we would band together to fight them off... okay, now I'm just
rambling, sorry.
I know this is extremely abtract and somewhat ridiculous, but its an idea
thats been going through my mind for a few days, just thought I'd share it
with you.
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