Wars in history seem complicated and grand but they are not. If you look closely into why some wars happened and compare them to actions of kids, you’ll realize that they have so many similarities. A single conflict can blow up a whole country and cost billions of dollars and lives, but that conflict might be between differences in opinions. When you observe how and why little kids fight, you realize that they fight due to small ridiculous reasons such as who gets the doll or who gets the blue paint instead of the pink. Same situation happens right now. America is currently having a warfare against Iraq due to the reason that they have a nuclear weapon but I think the actual reason Bush is so obsessed is because of the oil in the country. Oil, at first, might not seem so important to you but look around you; heaters, cars, and millions of other things are run by oil. Oil can be interpreted as power these days because we are running low of coal. It’s funny how Bush tries to claim other country’s oil even when it’s not his. He doesn’t mind sacrificing some billionds of dollars and lives if he can get the oil. Even though he’s currently the president of the most powerful and the most developed country, even though almost all of the citizens are against him, even though this war is just harming his image, he wants more. This ridiculous reason can be found when kids fight. Even if a kid has her own high fashion doll, she just can’t bare anyone else having something different or perhaps better. The kid will do anything to get the other doll or destroy it; simply because she wants to. Just because the war happens between adults and uses guns and machines instead of pinching doesn’t mean it happens due to a better or a meaningful reason. Another example is the WWI when countries fought over land. Geo-politics was a smart way to “carve” countries but it became a problem when countries wanted the same land. This is also similiar to bullies trying to take other kid’s paint or doll, just because the paint is blue or the doll has a prettier skirt on. Anyways, the lands that they were fighting about was not theirs in the first places; same with bullies.
I thought the reason why we learned history was to learn from the mistakes and not make them again but I don’t think we have learned the lesson enough. Do we need to go through more painful wars and sacrifices in order to learn our lesson that our war are no better than catfights between little spoiled kids? Who is the mom or an arbitrator that will stop this nonsense? Kid fights are actually better because they can be stopped.
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