Conflicts are a natural part of life. Yet, not all conflicts are wars.
War is not natural. Humans are curious and intelligent, and normal humans like more to meet other humans and maybe even do business with them. They are not really for shooting each other. Seldom wars are fought by those that want them and start them. Ordinary humans do that for them.
The Xmas truce of 1914 had been considered "subversive" by those that weren't in the trenches. But it was a natural thing to do, for those facing each other, with no personal reason to kill.
I always have been a soldier, even when I was not wearing a uniform. Amid a fight, in Nasiriyah, in 2004, I was asking myself a dangerous question for that moment: "Why do they want to kill me? Maybe if we met in another moment, we even were now sharing tea and talking about our families. And how to solve our problems intelligently."
The enemy is not an "enemy" (Sanskrit: not the same mother). Just and Antagonist. Every phenomenon in Universe happens because an applied force generates a counterforce: that is a conflict - not a war. We all share the same Mother Life.
Here is the link to a great article published in TIME Magazine, December 24th, 2014. A Veteran Friend sent it to me:
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