Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Shot that was heard around The World.


It was called "The shot that was heard around the world." July 28th,  1914, the day the crown prince of Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo.
It was also the bullet that TRAVELED around the world for, having killed Franz Ferdinand, it also killed 23 million others by the time it's trajectory into World War One was finished!
This war was deemed to be the '"The war to end all wars" but within twenty five years the Second World War was launched, to be followed in five years by the Korean War, and succeeded in swift order by wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq and now, war again the the Middle East.

At sometime we must surely get the message that it it makes simple economic sense to 'beat swords into plow shares'. 
To use the trillions of dollars spent annually on arms to build bridges, roads, homes and infra-structures which, you must agree, is infinitely better than blowing them all to smithereens!

A bumper sticker I once read comes to mind.

"Why bother looking for new planets? We haven't finished screwing this one up yet."

Rest assured if a mad world leader presses the NUCLEAR button the job of screwing up the planet will happen very quickly. 
The only other planet that will matter at that point will be Planet Heaven.

"SALVATION. DON'T LEAVE EARTH WITHOUT IT."

Jubilate.

Ian