Neither party knows how to defeat nor surrender; neither is concerned for the innocent citizens who are caught in the conflict and have nowhere to go.
Operation Enduring Warfare
A terrible price and a war without end
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Shot for The Sunday Times Magazine. Eugene Richards, USA. Titled ’War is Personal’, this image won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category. Richards documented America’s casualties of war returning home from Iraq - and was first featured in Spectrum last July. In this picture, Nelida Bagley lifts her son, Jose, from his bed at the West Roxbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, Massachusetts. The 34-year-old lost 40% of his brain after a grenade exploded in his vehicle while he was on patrol in Ramadi. He will require constant care for the rest of his life go to story
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If we keep the human society as it is, there is no possibility of peace. It is not a question of simply accepting God as the center of everything and peace will be achieved, but the question is how to live in God. Mr. Lennon wants to stop war, but the war is the creation of different politicians. So unless on the summit of administration there are actually Krishna conscious men, we cannot stop war. Therefore people in general must understand the importance of Krishna consciousness, and they must in this democratic day send their real representatives who can make right decisions whether there should be war or no war. We find from the history of Mahabharata that the battle of Kurukshetra was because of the belligerent attitude of Duryodhana. So such war as is was conducted under the advice of Lord Krishna is not bad, but war declared and executed by demonic politicians is certainly very bad. more
When will it end?
Srila Prabhupada, in a lecture on Bhagavad-gita (Chapter 2, Text 26, Hyderabad, Nov 30, 1972), said that war should be finished in a matter of days — not years — with a decisive conclusion. The Mahabharata war was fought and finished in 18 days. Present-day warfare drags on for years, and civilians, including women, children and farmers and old people are not spared. The young men and women who embark on tours of duty are sent to be killed or horribly maimed without any purpose except as fodder for the terrible machines and weapons of destruction. War is over only when whole populations are decimated and the landscape has been ravaged, and even then it is not ended; occupation in the name of liberation and rebuilding begins, and the killing continues on account of distrust, suspicion, greed and corruption. Neither party knows how to defeat nor surrender; neither is concerned for the innocent citizens who are caught in the conflict and have nowhere to go. Previously, war took place on a battlefield between only the armed forces, like a play acted out by actors on a stage. Everything was decided there and then; when the top leader fell, his army surrendered, and war was over. Now war is fought by sporadic attacks. Terrorists target civilians, and hide themselves amongst the rest of the population, and the foreign forces, unable to distinguish between friend and foe, end up killing as many if not more innocents than insurgents. Many are the heroes who fall — they are each someone's son, someone's husband, someone's father, someone's brother, but in battle they are simply pawns on a chessboard, maneuvered by leaders, politicians voted into office, and who themselves keep far away from the front. Horrific weapons are unleashed on both sides, terrorizing everyone in the cities and countryside. This kind of war is demoniac.
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