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I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.