A world without wars

Imagine a world without wars.  Is this ever possible?

We have wars

• So countries can "defend" themselves against aggressors.  Interestingly there is no country that proclaims itself an aggressor.  It is always the other country the aggressor while we are defending ourselves.
• Because there are countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan where extremists like the Taliban want to establish their own law over their own land.
• Because there are groups of people such as Al-Qaeda who believe they have suffered from other cultures in the past and continue to be threatened by those cultures in the present.

and the root causes for these wars are

• We do not have a global identity.  We are citizens of a world without a world government.  People divided, in alphabetical order, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - each absorbed by the issues within the national boundaries we are contained within.  Without a World Government we can count on, we rely on our national governments to fight for our advantage in a competing world pitting our country against the other nations of the world.
• Rudyard Kipling said "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet".  He was right saying "East is East and West is West" but wrong in saying "never the twain shall meet".  Because of advances in travel and communication technologies, people with divergent beliefs and cultures meet whether they want to or not, sometimes violently.
• Al-Qaeda breeds on the injustices done by the Christians to Muslims during the Crusades.  They perceive these injustices as continuing and fight their perceived Crusaders in 2010 using weapons available in this century.

The solution?

Hundreds of years ago there were feudal states fighting each other.  As time went by these states coalesced to form new, bigger states.  Bigger states at peace internally but at war with other equally big states.  This coalescent process continued and resulted in the nations we have today.  This process of coalescence continues today with the formation of NATO, European Union, NAFTA, ASEAN, etc. but these are not states.

The United Nations (UN) was an experiment to bring all countries together.  It is an experiment that has failed.

It is time for a paradigm shift. A quantum leap.  A shift to a democratically elected World Government elected by every mature citizen of earth.  A government responsible for global matters such as the environment, global financial controls, the rights of every world citizen to their beliefs perhaps in territories of their own.  The right of minorities to leave such territories and be rehabilitated in other parts of the world. 

Can such a World Government be formed?  Yes.  The very same advance in technology that has brought East and West together in war can bring us together in peace.

Comments

[jack]

Blaire is a war criminal and should be in Prison along with his buddy Bush – these kind of vitriol attacks are from someone who is scared stiff of justice knocking on his door and is desperately trying to divert attention. He thinks if Jones can do it so can I. The man has no integrity and no moral fiber that alone fiber at all.

[air yeezy]

I love you with all my heart!!