Fanning the flames of violence

The U.S. military commander in Iraq has stepped up accusations that Iran was stoking violence in Iraq and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force. Washington accuses the force, the elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, of inciting bloodshed in Iraq and of training and equipping militias who have attacked U.S. troops...World News

Violence begets violence. Evidently, the US have proved that the Iran government is behind some of the escalating violence that is happening in Iraq. They have no aim to stop the war but only a selfish political ambition of who knows what.

Many a times, countries continue to fight on in an escalating war because of ill advisers or counselors who become war stokers. Remember the time when the advisers of the Bush Administration told the US President that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein must be annihilated and the country attacked. The people that whisper to the ears play a very important part in deciding whether the war should go on or not.

Iran wants the war to go on so the flames of violence continues to be fanned. Other countries are also involved in this mess for their own reasons.

This is also true for the individuals besides the happenings at the national or political level. Without bullets or ammunition, a war or a fight will die off. But we have often allowed others to stir the anger and the violence and the vengeance and revenge and killings and other cruel acts of humanity in us instead of listening to a greater reason to stop. The gossipers always sound better. The whisperers called themselves the concerned. Our emotions are stirred. Our heart felt cheated and not satisfied and eventually we lead ourself to take the action which can mean irreparable damage.

Would you listen to a friend if he or she speaks gossips and negative comments about others?

Will your relationship with others be the same if you have received damaging remarks about them?

Do you join in a group of people if you know that you can be stirred emotionally in a negative way?

Millions killed in Wars

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It is shocking that humans will kill humans in whatever purpose and ideology that seems good but underlining it, it is so evil.

World War 1 - 18 million dead of which 10 million were civilians.

World War 2 - 50 million dead of which 28 million were civilians.

Korean War - 2.8 million dead of which 2 million were civilians.

Vietnam War - 3.5 million dead of which 2.5 million were civilians.

Cambodian Conflict - 1.6 million dead. All were civilians.

Afghanistan during the Soviet Invasion - 1.8 million dead.

Iraq-Iran War - 1 million dead.

Sudan Conflict - 1.9 million dead.

Gulf War - 200,000 dead.

Iraq War - 30,000 dead, and still counting.

What about those Wars that are not listed above?

God help Us...