Have we gone mad with war?

Name a country in this world at this very moment that is not at war with another country or itself? Hard isn't? What happened to a world full of peace and tranquility? Nowadays everywhere you look there has been violence in that are. We as humans have moral, do we not? Yet we do not follow our own rules and turn a blind eye to all the wrong that is going on. Are we paving our paths to Armageddon or worse? Anyone with solutions or is this truly inevitable because we have grown so fond and in love with war?

Does Politics go hand in hand with violence?

I'm appalled by the state of African countries these days. Recently, civil unrest has become more and more frequent during the pre-election and post-election period. Beginning with the recent most renowned post-election violence in 2007-2008 in Kenya that killed an estimated 1500 people, majority killed by a sect called the Mungiki. All those deaths were during a period of 2 to 3 months. This was to be followed by Nigeria's post-election violence that is being driven by a group called the Boko Haram and has already killed an estimated 100 people. The Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C) has its elections coming up in a few weeks, tension and fear is rising over whether there will be widespread violence and chaos. Can D.R.C escape this deadly trap that all African states are falling into or are they doomed to follow it? Is this continent bound for destruction or for glory? How can they make this evitable?

Crying Children of Afghanistan

A 6 year old Girl who was raped.

The girl above is one of many girls, who have been traumatized with unbearable pain and shame. Most of us when we think of a war-stricken country like Afghanistan, we only think of the effect on the economy, the adult and the youth majority being the men. But how many of us have thought of the emotional scars, the atrocities it brings to our female counterparts? This 6 year old girl you see up there, would have probably not even have known about sex, yet at her age she was raped by some savage men taking advantage of the war. She is not the only one, there are many more like her. That was July, the number of girls being raped would have tripled by now. Afghanistan is loosing its children, if it isn't by the emotional scarring it is by the bombings of enemies. Funny thing is those who escape that, end up falling in love with foreigners only to be beaten to death. Is this right? Is there a solution? Or is the war so bad the children of Afghanistan can not be helped?