Post by SeventhSeal17 on May 8, 2007 21:39:03 GMT -5
New Spin On An Old Fear.
D. R. Munro
As I was thinking about what I would discuss with all of you in my Politics column I was at a loss. The ideas just weren’t flowing, and it is hard, nay, impossible for a writer to put forced ideas to paper. As the deadline loomed, I was reading an article about the Doomsday Clock, something I have always found intriguing, and something hit me… we need to fear the usage of strategic nuclear arms from sovereign nations.
As I developed my ideas I traced a time line of twentieth century events. For the primary events we have: World War I, Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War, World War II, various wars in Southeast Asia, and a couple of Gulf Wars. Now, if you look at that time line, the majority of events took place before August 15, 1945, also known as V-J Day.
Now take into consideration the fact that WWI and WWII fell within relatively the same time frame, with World War II being the last major military operation not only in the twentieth century, but since. It wasn’t the fact that the world was a kinder, gentler place following World War II, in fact, with the Soviet Union putting tension on nearly every nation in the known world, and NATO responding with their own counter-tension, it was a far more palpable age of fear then World War II could have hoped to be.
Only one reason can explain why the world has yet to engage in another global clash of arms: nuclear warfare. Sound crazy, I know. However, it is the fear of nuclear destruction that forestalls war. The ingredients are all there, have been for years. Yet that pervasive fear of assured destruction makes leaders give serious consideration to their actions.
That’s not to say violence doesn’t still reign supreme, because it does. However, modern violence and genocide have transitioned from developed countries, to the undeveloped. Genocide rules these societies and there are two kinds of people. Those with guns, and those without.
THIS IS MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. YOU MAY NOT USE IN PART OR WHOLE ANYWHERE
D. R. Munro
As I was thinking about what I would discuss with all of you in my Politics column I was at a loss. The ideas just weren’t flowing, and it is hard, nay, impossible for a writer to put forced ideas to paper. As the deadline loomed, I was reading an article about the Doomsday Clock, something I have always found intriguing, and something hit me… we need to fear the usage of strategic nuclear arms from sovereign nations.
As I developed my ideas I traced a time line of twentieth century events. For the primary events we have: World War I, Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War, World War II, various wars in Southeast Asia, and a couple of Gulf Wars. Now, if you look at that time line, the majority of events took place before August 15, 1945, also known as V-J Day.
Now take into consideration the fact that WWI and WWII fell within relatively the same time frame, with World War II being the last major military operation not only in the twentieth century, but since. It wasn’t the fact that the world was a kinder, gentler place following World War II, in fact, with the Soviet Union putting tension on nearly every nation in the known world, and NATO responding with their own counter-tension, it was a far more palpable age of fear then World War II could have hoped to be.
Only one reason can explain why the world has yet to engage in another global clash of arms: nuclear warfare. Sound crazy, I know. However, it is the fear of nuclear destruction that forestalls war. The ingredients are all there, have been for years. Yet that pervasive fear of assured destruction makes leaders give serious consideration to their actions.
That’s not to say violence doesn’t still reign supreme, because it does. However, modern violence and genocide have transitioned from developed countries, to the undeveloped. Genocide rules these societies and there are two kinds of people. Those with guns, and those without.
THIS IS MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. YOU MAY NOT USE IN PART OR WHOLE ANYWHERE