War is Murder

The word “war,” carries a number of (ideas and) meanings. It is even embedded into many cultures, as the way for young men to prove their strength and courage. But war, also means death, torture, destruction and sorrow. War, after all, is more accurately defined as, “state sanctioned murder.”

We condemn street gangs for shooting and killing each other. Sometimes they kill innocent civilians as well. And war, does exactly the same thing—except it has been sanctioned (and ordered) by a government (or organized group) against another (and its population).

As we seem to believe that we are more advanced than our predecessors, and more intelligent than animals, it seems that our large brains and amazing communications skills are being underutilized and greed and the need to dominate and injure is still coursing through humanity.

Make no mistake. War is murder. And those who use war to promote their interests, are murderers of the worst kind.