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THE EVILS OF WAR
OR
THE HORRORS OF MODERN WARFARE

"With fire and sword, the country round

Was wasted far and wide,

And many a childing mother then And new-born baby died

They say it was a shocking sight

After the field was won;

For many thousand bodies here

"Lay rotting in the sun"

Robert Southey

Man is physically inferior but intellectually superior to all the animals. First, he must have invented simple weapons for his own defense and for hunting animals. In the olden days, battles were fought for capturing fertile land and for glory. Nowadays they are fighting for economic reasons and for testing the fire-power.

Modern warfare is essentially Scientifics, Scientists, like Prof Corrie, are working day and night to invent more and more horrible and highly destructive weapons of war. Long-range artillery, anti-aircraft guns, rockets, and rocket launchers. guided-missiles, intercontinental missiles, mines, atom-bombs, hydrogen bombs, neutron homos, laser, mustard gas, and many more poisonous gases and cultures have been manufactured, Scientists become tools of destruction in the hands of politicians. They are made to believe that they are serving their country, their religion, and humanity.

 

Sometime ago preparations for the "Star War" between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R, we're underway., They spent billions of dollars on it the plan was to manufacture a sufficient number of neutron bombs to destroy the entire oxygen of the earth. Fifty men and women highly talented, fertile, and healthy were to be chosen and taken to a planet Where they were to live for fifty years. Then neutron bombs were to be exploded on the earth. It would take fifty years to revive a sufficient quantity of oxygen for habitat. Now after the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. this program has been abandoned.

 

The afore-said bombs can destroy big cities in the twinkling of an eye. In 1945, America dropped two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought about such destruction that Japan surrendered unconditionally. The after-effects of that nuclear explosion can still be seen in the form of crippled and misshaped children even after sixty years.

 

In olden times the fighting was restricted to battlefields. But now soldiers and civilians are killed alike. Death rains from the sky m the shape of bombs, rockets, missiles and nuclear dust, Millions of innocent people are killed. Warriors of today believe in no code of morality. They follow the saying:

"All is fair in love and war"

 

Trade and industry are ruined. Historical monuments, hospitals, libraries, places of worship, and things of art are destroyed. Diseases spread due to pollution of explosives and retuning of unburied dead bodies. Articles of daily use are not available in the open market. Crops fail and famine flourishes. It brings unemployment and inflation.

Every penny is poured into the mouth of the cannon. As a result, education, health, and social welfare suffer a setback. Public debt increases. Look at Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc. their economic condition has extremely deteriorated. The same is the case of Afghanistan, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Bosnia.

To sum up we can say that war is no solution to any problem. One war becomes the cause of another war. Neville Chamberlain rightly says about the uselessness of war:

 

                "In modern wars, there are no winners"  of defeat"

So, wisdom lies in avoiding war because. it is evil.