WAR

Please ask an Iraqi if he

Please ask an Iraqi if he preferred living under Saddam or is he happier now, the answer would surely surprise you, it did me.

It is no accident that

It is no accident that archaeologists and anthropologists have not discovered any evidence of warfare during the Paleolithic era.... The consensus among archaeologists and anthropologists seems to be that cave people were too busy trying to survive and care for an entire group of people to indulge in warfare. There are even skeletal remains of handicapped people who were obviously taken care of by the rest of the group. Of course, populations were sparse, land and territory were not an "issue" in hunter-gatherer societies, since land "ownership" was not a concept then. Later, when an agrarian existence came into being, and "ownership" of land became an issue, along with resources to grow crops and have places for livestock to graze, then warfare became part of the lives of human beings - and continued to be more commonplace as human beings "evolved."
When it comes to art work and tools from the ancient past, it seems that people of the paleolithic era were far more civilized than present-day human beings. They had cooperative hunts that enabled the greatest number of them to survive to produce young, and feed, clothe and care for an entire group, and that's reflected in cave paintings and weaponry designed to kill animals for food, but not weapons to kill each other.
As the world becomes increasingly over-populated, humans have devolved into less civilized beings. Not only do we kill each other, but we kill off other species and make whole regions uninhabitable with our waste products and our pollution at alarming rates, disrupting the balance once sustained by Mother Nature.
That's a sad commentary on our species; our species being 'primates'. One look at behavior of chimps and their pattern of warfare, infatancides and petorling their territory will convince anyone that our nature is indeed warlike.

There will be more and more wars

It's always about money, resources and interests. As the number of people increase in our world, and the availability of resources (natural and otherwise) shrinks both in absolute terms and per capita, there is bound to be trouble! And the control of the ever decreasing resources will mean power and influence. So, unfortunately, you can be sure that wars and bloodshed are going to be a common occurance in this century. You may think I'm a sinister person, but I really think the good days of living on this green Earth may very well be over! I really feel sorry for our children!

Agree

I couldn't agree more. You may like to add the current situation between Iran and the US and Israel. I recommend to everyone Jewish or Gentile to read this recently publish book "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" by two real scholars from University of Chicago and Harvard.

Of course now the new bitches of GW in France, Mr Sarkozy and Company have replaced the old British one are beating the drum of war. I like to remind those fellow Iranians whose collective mouth is salivating that any war with Iran will bring them back to suck more blood from the tired body of Iran are sadly mistaken. Iran will become another Iraq and all of us have to witness the demise of another historic nation. These are the people, as you suggested, barking war song while themselves are happily living in their comfortable houses in the US and Europe.

Charge

I totally agree with you but there is also another difference between the leaders of the yesteryears and today's supposedly "Leaders".
At least in the old days, the leaders would actually tell the truth about why they were going to war.
Today, 9 out of 10 World Leaders are liars who are the servants of the special interest groups and have no spine of their own to know better or make any decisions.
They serve the masters at any cost. The masters are behind the curtain running the show and these are the same masters who will destroy the current humanity and wipe the Planet off the human race sooner than a lot of common people would think.
Sad part of it is that people have no choice. They really don't elect these leaders/puppets. The Masters are the ones who select them to serve their greed.