h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Love and War, too much of one, not enough of the other.

My thoughts are with those involved on both sides of the conflict and lets hope that the bloodletting will actually end soon.

I think back to 19 months ago, about the same time as I write this, and think how the world has changed, and how it hasn’t. 3000 people died in a tower block, a tragedy there is no doubt, and from that, the conflicts, the search for Bin Laden, crushing of the Taliban, more deaths. The reprisals on both sides, which have lead to, for ever dubious reasons that I wish not to get into the freeing of Iraqis from an oppressor. Has the death toll equaled that of New York, if it hasn’t will it stop when it does?

Will good come from this? No doubt. Will this go down in history, maybe? Will Saddam go down as a Hitler, vilified over the world, somebody how made his country strong enough to take on the world, then lost it all or a Pol Pot? Pot must be considered every bit an evil man as Hitler, but he didn’t attack the west, he is ignored. The other week rebels in the Congo massacred a whole village of 4000 people, nobody has lifted a finger.

When we were put on this world, I’m sure the grand design was to give us a chance to create a better place for us all, to work together. I know the bible said that the reason that we were given languages was to stop us working together and thereby becoming greater than god. Like a good teacher is proudest when a pupil asks a question that he or she can’t answer, surly a creator should be proudest if we work above the hatred in this world to great a better one.

I ask that people who read this make that little bit more of an effort to understand and work together.

tjm