The unending cycle of war: humanity’s struggle against conflict

WE ARE about to leave the holy month of Ramadaan.

- FAROUK ARAIE

However war, the Grim Reaper, continues to claim the lives of innocent people across the Muslim and non-Muslim world: 175 schoolgirls were massacred in Minab, Iran, by a US missile strike.

War is like fire in the human community, one whose fuel is human beings. Wars expose man’s ultimate inhumanity. It is an innate, but obsolete part of human nature. War reflects man’s basest instinct, untamed by rationality.

All wars are instigated by hungry megalomaniacs, the politicians, managed by professional killers, the military, and fought by the brainwashed members of their prospective population, the cannon fodder.