Why is peace so elusive for humans? Is it part of our genetic makeup to destroy ourselves in the quest to not destroy ourselves? The "civilized" world expounds ideas of lofty morality in our efforts to protect the freedom and liberty of the downtrodden and the weak. The world developed the League of Nations in 1920 to maintain world peace. The world developed the United Nations in 1945 to maintain world peace and prevent another catastrophic world war. Yet, since 1920 the world seems incapable of securing a peace. Is world leadership so inept that we can't even put together a group to secure our peace? It probably doesn't help when the very countries threatening world peace have a seat on the U.N. Security Council; when the very countries violating human rights have a seat on councils overseeing human rights violations. We have no peace in our world because we allow politics and money to define our path, when the very act of war keeps politicians in office and the industrial machine moving. Is it any wonder the morality of war seems blurred?
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