I wrote the original version of the post below in 2016, I came across the original draft of it in one note earlier today while looking for something else. I have only made a couple of superficial changes, and tidied up the language a little, but for the most part this is an exact restatement a decade later… Sadly, something do not change…

So, we are at war AGAIN.  

The last war destabilised a region to the point where extremist militants carved out their own empires across international borders and having done so become a terrorist threat to the western world.  

So we are going to war. Again. . 

I know its a wild and wacky idea , but perhaps we could try not bombing people and creating the reason for the next war. We have done this particular dance on and off for about the whole of human history. 

Perhaps we could try a new approach ,  

I would like to suggest we give it some new name, to distinguish it from war. Perhaps, we could call it Peace. Under the new approach of peace the people we don’t bomb this year will not become the people we then have to bomb in five or ten years’ time when they are frankly a bit pissed off with the west for it policy of bombing them. 

Peace would instead mean that having not bombed them now, they will have less inclination to attempt to bomb us in future.  In turn we will then not have to go to war. and the billions and billions spent on the policies of War can be spent on policies of peace. For example, funding the NHS and not having food banks as a basic requirement of a bankrupt welfare state. Free high education, better state pensions, a decent standard of living for all, homes for the homeless. Nice peaceful things rather than bombs. 

We have tried this war thing time and again , 

I know as a civilisation we are a bit slow on the uptake at times, but frankly it’s past time we realised war as a policy doesn’t work. That is unless you’re trying to perpetuate a corrupt ruling class, an industrial military block and breed a state of paranoid acceptance among your people of increasingly intrusive state control designed to keep the rich in power and control. A state where the poor do as there told and accept that they are ruled by those who know better. While blaming the problems of the state on the refugees from countries where the ruling elite have perpetuated war.  

So… 

Why not give this Peace idea a chance, there possibly a song someone could write about that idea now i think of it. 

Let’s try not killing more people in wars, followed by wars followed by more wars. constantly breeding the next bunch of militant gun wielding fanatics who want to exact some revenge because we keep bombing them. Frankly, if we were bombed every day year on year, we would probably be a little tetchy ourselves,. 

Peace .  

its a new idea ,  

lets give it a go …….