Though it has been years since a major regional conflict has threatened the fragile balance of peace that exists today, the horrors of war and the memories and lessons that were the bitter fruits of the acts of monstrosity must not be forgotten. It is true that with the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the subsequent end to the Cold War that had more than once threatened to throw the world back into …showed first 75 words of 1018 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1018 total…civilisation, the human kind has yet and again failed in its quest for equality and a civilised society. War makes every single one of us losers, sharing in the humiliation of defeat. The act of war arouses hatred and breaks human bonds, takes innocent lives and destroys our homes, taking away all that we have cherished in replacement of a darker and bleaker world, making everyone an equal in their failure to stop a war.