On a more serious note:

I’ve been trying to ignore and generally not really think about what’s been happening between the US and Iraq for to speak frankly – at least this is my opinion – thinking about it is a waste of time. War is inevitable.

Call me apathetic or whatever else you want to, but I don’t think that human beings are built for peace. Even during the times that history call the “Golden Era” of any nation/race/country, there usually is some sort of war going on some place else. War usually is the employ of people who are after power or after keeping the power they already have. I think war is the human version of the constant fight for survival and affirmation of supremacy we see among animals in the National Geographic Channel or Discovery Channel on cable tv. Without war, human history would be very boring and technology would certainly not be what it is today. So, in an causal way, war is good; for the following reasons:

- People wouldn’t know how valuable peace actually is without war. Like the argument that darkness/evil is necessary in order to appreciate light/good. It gives balance to the world and therefore needed.

- War lessens the problem of population explosion. Kill off enough people and the survivors would have more space and resources for themselves. Cold of me to say so but it is just the truth. Nature can’t accommodate all of us so some will just have to go. And since pestilence, famine, and diseases are losing the battle against modern science, the only thing left to do is for us to kill each other off the place of the planet.

- As I said before, technology wouldn’t be what it is today if it wasn’t for war. People tend to become more creative, inventive, and imaginative when their very existence is at stake.

These are just a few of what we can call good after effects of war. There may be others, but I don’t really want to think, let alone write, about them right now.

Wars will inevitable come, not just the impending one between the US and Iraq. It’ll affect a lot of people in a negative way, but we really mustn’t fret. It’s not anything new. Human beings have survived wars before, and we’re just too many to completely eradicate from the face of the earth without damaging the planet itself.

I guess the question is: who will survive? Survive and rebuild after the war is over. Somebody eventually would; but I can’t answer who it’ll be. I just hope my family, friends, and I would be among the survivors, but if we’re not and we die along with the rest of the war victims, well… we’ll be past caring by then, wouldn’t we?