Our World
Our World
What is our world coming to?
We in Canada support a military that has been committed to a “war” in a foreign country.
We, a small county in population attempt to solve problems in a foreign county while many of our internal problems remain unsolved and many important issues unresolved.
Why are we involved in Afghanistan? Why did the prime minister commit Canadian forces to provide military personnel well into the future?
Around the world today there are many wars going on. There are many reasons for these wars but we in Canada are not involved in these. I believe that we should be involved in providing economic assistance to countries on a selective basis to alleviate social problems relating to food and health and education. There are areas in which we can specialize, but warfare should not be our strength.
Should we have a military force? By all means we should for the defense of our borders against the intrusion of foreign powers, organizations and individuals that are bent in doing whatever that is not in our interests. But fighting a war on foreign soil is not what I believe the majority of Canadians would ever desire.
We hear today of a crisis in the Middle East relating to Israel and Lebanon. Where does Canada stand? Where should we stand? The organization known as Hezbollah has been in existence for some 25 years and is both a political and military organization. Until the government of Lebanon eradicated this organization, we might expect serious consequences to follow.
The United States has learned serious lessons from its involvement in Iraq. One is that it is not wise to adopt aggressive action against foreign nations. It has been a hands-off situation with regards to Iran and more recently with North Korea. Diplomacy seems to be the key word and having other nations become more involved in attempts to resolve international problems. Of course the threat of nations having nuclear power or the capacity to use weapons of mass destruction against the United States causes fear, intense fear to spread across the country. Since 9/11 the US has been filled with fear and has suffered the loss of freedoms. Any visit to Washington will reveal many security measures that have been adopted. Much money has been invested or been directed to security through the employment of individuals and in the expansion of government organizations to meet the challenges that exist. One aspect of the WAR in which the US is engaged has already been lost and that is the loss of freedom or a sense of freedom and in its place the acquiring a sense of fear. What an utter shame! What a shock, the trading of fear for freedom!
What is our world becoming? Are we a planet plagued with environmental pollution and religious and social pollution as differing religious groups fight for supremacy in the name of GOD? Of course we have seen wars in which family members fight against one another, where particular religious groups fight members of the same religious groups praying to GOD to defeat their enemy; yes praying to the same GOD to have other human beings die! What is our world becoming? We have seen this from ancient days to the present. What have we learned? Of what value these learnings when little has changed.
Yes, I have the questions; we all do but our governments are there to do what is right. They have not been successful in the past so what does the future hold?
I guess we will live with the pollutions that we have created and the wars in which we are involved, directly or indirectly.
What is our world coming to?
What is our world coming to?
We in Canada support a military that has been committed to a “war” in a foreign country.
We, a small county in population attempt to solve problems in a foreign county while many of our internal problems remain unsolved and many important issues unresolved.
Why are we involved in Afghanistan? Why did the prime minister commit Canadian forces to provide military personnel well into the future?
Around the world today there are many wars going on. There are many reasons for these wars but we in Canada are not involved in these. I believe that we should be involved in providing economic assistance to countries on a selective basis to alleviate social problems relating to food and health and education. There are areas in which we can specialize, but warfare should not be our strength.
Should we have a military force? By all means we should for the defense of our borders against the intrusion of foreign powers, organizations and individuals that are bent in doing whatever that is not in our interests. But fighting a war on foreign soil is not what I believe the majority of Canadians would ever desire.
We hear today of a crisis in the Middle East relating to Israel and Lebanon. Where does Canada stand? Where should we stand? The organization known as Hezbollah has been in existence for some 25 years and is both a political and military organization. Until the government of Lebanon eradicated this organization, we might expect serious consequences to follow.
The United States has learned serious lessons from its involvement in Iraq. One is that it is not wise to adopt aggressive action against foreign nations. It has been a hands-off situation with regards to Iran and more recently with North Korea. Diplomacy seems to be the key word and having other nations become more involved in attempts to resolve international problems. Of course the threat of nations having nuclear power or the capacity to use weapons of mass destruction against the United States causes fear, intense fear to spread across the country. Since 9/11 the US has been filled with fear and has suffered the loss of freedoms. Any visit to Washington will reveal many security measures that have been adopted. Much money has been invested or been directed to security through the employment of individuals and in the expansion of government organizations to meet the challenges that exist. One aspect of the WAR in which the US is engaged has already been lost and that is the loss of freedom or a sense of freedom and in its place the acquiring a sense of fear. What an utter shame! What a shock, the trading of fear for freedom!
What is our world becoming? Are we a planet plagued with environmental pollution and religious and social pollution as differing religious groups fight for supremacy in the name of GOD? Of course we have seen wars in which family members fight against one another, where particular religious groups fight members of the same religious groups praying to GOD to defeat their enemy; yes praying to the same GOD to have other human beings die! What is our world becoming? We have seen this from ancient days to the present. What have we learned? Of what value these learnings when little has changed.
Yes, I have the questions; we all do but our governments are there to do what is right. They have not been successful in the past so what does the future hold?
I guess we will live with the pollutions that we have created and the wars in which we are involved, directly or indirectly.
What is our world coming to?
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