Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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