Politics, war and me don’t really get along.  I mean I understand it though I deny it, I know what is going on in the countries, I deny this as well. Why? Because it upsets me too much to even go there, to think about it or to discuss it.  I see the whole and I feel it deeply, when I look at images like the one below my insides become a mess and my heart feels ripped from its very veins.  I once said I hated nothing, I lied.  I hate war.

A Palestinian medic carries a child injured in Israeli shelling into Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.

Politics = Power

Power = Greed

Greed  = War

This country wants that country; That country wants the others resources; One half of the country wants the power from the other; One man wants one race to be more superior than the other and murders millions.

Politics. War. Greed. Death

Problem is we can’t live without governance, that much is clear, history speaks for itself. Another truth is the fact that no matter how hard we try there will always be wars, the world is run by humans so there is no getting around that one.

There is one thing though that the world can stand up and be counted for.  Perhaps I am just a pipe dreamer but I have dreamt of it for so long that to me it seems just that much more possible.

What I hate about war?

The children. Kids. Innocent little sample humans who haven’t had the chance to live yet. Babies.  Defenseless and dependent on their parents without the means to flee the country on their own, not strong enough to survive the elements without protection.

Little people.

Why is it that when ever there is a war ignoramuses use children? Don’t throw me that bollocks about war being war, that it will have its casualties.  I really don’t care, perhaps these war makers need to stand up and be the adults that they are, be men, be women.

Pawns, that is what the children are.  Used as suicide bombers, caught in cross fire fleeing for their lives, bombed to fragments, ah children really are the best pawns are they not? These power hungry mangy greed filled adults use kids as their secret weapon.  Sick.

Worst yet? Media.  I love reading, I have no real problem with the media or journalists, look we can’t get away with the fact that we NEED the news (the real stuff not propaganda mind).  Thing is, what is real?

One week:

They print the photos of the children in the newspapers.

People see the images of the little kids being carried, bloodies and missing limbs.

We stare at the images and ask the question, who did it?

Those Israeli bastards!

Next week:

They print more photos of the children in the newspapers.

People see the images of the little kids being carried, bloodies and missing limbs.

We stare at the images and ask the question, who did it?

Those Palestinian bastards!

Around and around we go, one week we hate the the one and then the next we hate the other, both have killed innocent little sample humans who haven’t had the chance to live.

All that this accomplishes is confusing the externals, the people not hearing the bombs or fearing for their lives each day.  Confuse the public enough they won’t see what is really going on, they won’t understand which side to support.

Around and around we go.

I really don’t care who is at fault, who had the land centuries ago or the politics behind war, any war.  It all comes down to a few words for me:

Power

Greed

Religion

It all starts and ends with blood spilled, death and worse yet, damaged defenseless children.

In an ideal world I would like to see all these politicians pause for a moment and stand up as one. Stand up and say “Enough is enough, leave the children out of this, lets be grown ups and discuss this like adults”

War is the big step up to a normal fist fight, fists are now weapons.  A country steps on your toe? Blast them with your missiles, no sweat!  Another country looks at your woman? Land with all your forces, bring out those big fisties filled with gunpowder and blast them.

Both the politicians and people of power, terrorist leaders and tribal chiefs, will never be “men”, they will never grow big enough balls to stand up and say ENOUGH!

I accept that we can’t change the way things are over night.  I accept that this is the way of the world that people are so set on solving problems in certain ways, with force. I accept all this but can not the people of the world at least stand up and say stop using our children?

Have your wars, play with your little armoury, exert your power… go for it.

But for God’s sake stop using the children, stop killing them, destroying them, ripping them apart literally and figuratively.

Casualties of war? Blow up the ones you’re really fighting not innocent children. Period.

Ask these kids what they think… ask them their stories… hear their voices…

Just because it is seems to great to fix doesn’t mean we can’t stop it