End the war before the War ends us
To sit in the comfort of a hall, debating the power
of weapons while watching children die on a screen—this is not just insanity.
It is sadism in action.
To the so-called educated crooks, the weapon
brokers, the dirty politicians, the power-hungry maniacs: war is a business.
And unless these dangerous, apathetic warmongers are uprooted, the wars will
continue. The death toll will climb. The air will thicken with poison, and the
water will turn toxic.
A victory march, complete with a musical band, might
look like a celebration. But let us count the true cost of that victory. It was
paid for with the lives of newborns, children, teenagers, the young, adults,
and the elderly. It was paid for with men, women, transgender individuals, and
the differently abled. It was paid for with the flora and the fauna, the lakes
and the rivers, the soil and the sea, the very air we breathe, and the planet
itself.
If even one of these—if a single child, a single
tree, a single breath of clean air—is dear to you as your own kith and kin,
then you will never, ever support a bloody war.
To end war, we must end the anger. To end the anger,
we must end the hate. We must find the courage to forgive and the wisdom to
forget the past—not to erase it, but to stop letting it chain us. Only then can
we begin to build a peaceful future.
M.L.
Narendra Kumar
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