Thomas Merton wrote “Peace demands the most heroic labor and most difficult sacrifice. It demands great heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience”. I believe that peace is needed in this present world,where you hear every country is in war with other countries, whether it is related to terrorism, religion, or any other reason. When many religious beliefs describes war as holy war against their opponents. It is very difficult to create peace from one side. Peace is always two sided. It should come from both parties at war whether it is countries or individual themselves What causes war in this world? There are many causes for war like differences in opinion, competition, religion,and fight for the dominance. On March 19, 2003 the US started a war with Iraq. Since the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991, the US and Iraq have been clashing. The US is a democracy and Iraq is a dictatorship so naturally each government would dislike the way of the other. I don’t think the Persian Gulf War was aimed at Saddam Hussein but at the type of government. The US has always disliked dictatorships, which is why we invaded Vietnam.
This is why I think it is good that we are at war with Iraq. When the war began I was against it, I really didn’t know why we were going to war and I felt that we should not go into Iraq and destroy innocent people and, I felt that this war was more personal and about the oil but what it really its about is stopping Saddam from making weapons of mass destruction but, now that I know what type of man Saddam is I don’t think we had a choice this man is very dangerous and he needs to be stop. War and terrorism are a great shame for the whole human race, and so far, there has been nothing to bring an end to them. The United Nations has clearly failed to bring peace to the world. Since its founding charter, which professes its commitment to bring an end to war, there have been over 150 wars in the world. The five permanent members of its Security Council are the largest arms-selling nations in the world The power of peace can stop terrorism without being an apology for it.
The Term Paper on Kant’s Approach to Resolving War in Iraq
... provides the best hope for long term peace in Iraq and the rest of the world. In this paper, two well-known works ... current American government seems to apply in case of Iraq where it demands democracy while continuously supporting authoritarian regimes in the region ... Five years after the Iraq war had begun, policymakers are still looking for answers on how to bring about a resolution to that ...
Establishing true peace is a way to step completely outside the arena of justifying actions based on who did what to whom when. It has nothing to do with assigning blame. If terrorism and war can be likened to a pot of water boiling over, then peace is turning the stove off and cooling the pot down. Violence begins in people’s minds, and so does peace. We all carry within us the subjective technology of transforming violence into peace, we only need to choose it and it will happen. Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family and within society. Simply transferring the world’s nuclear weapons to a museum will not in itself bring about world peace. The nuclear weapons of the mind must first be eliminated.
