The Void Of War

In the 12th or 13th Century the Achaeans amassed an invasion army to vanquish the City of Troy. The formidable walls of their rival resisted nine years of siege, but finally Ulysses tricked the Trojans with a wooden horse secretly filled with Greek warriors. That night Troy was put to the torch and the the collapse of the great city initiated centuries of chaos throughout Asia Minor.

The USA accomplished the same inglorious result with the fall of Saddam. Iraq survives in anarchy. Syria suffers from a long civil war. Turkey seeks to subjugate the Kurds, and Saudi Arabia wages genocide against the Yemeni, while militants bomb Europe to punish the Western nations for their trespasses against the Muslims of the Levant and elsewhere around the world.

The mercenaries of the Saudis have no problem with bombing civilian targets.

Death and destruction reign supreme.

No one dares speak of peace.

That word is for dangerous to the rulers of this world than an atomic bomb, because with peace comes the end of social injustice.

Peace in our time.

The Sacrifice Of War

After the Fall of Troy the Eastern Mediterranean endured several centuries of chaos. Greece was consumed by wars between the city-states and Asia Minor suffered anarchy until the rise of the Persian Empire. The collapse of Saddam's Baathist dictatorship in Iraq has created a black hole of violence fueled by money and weapons. Syria's collapse into the pit of endless war has forced millions of refugees to seek asylum. 10,000 unfortunates land every day on the Greek island of Lesbos. That nation has neither then resources to provide for this host or the strength to stop them from entering Greece.

For the past two weeks Brock Dundee was on the beach of that Aegean island.

"I've never seen anything like this."

And the Scottish filmmaker has been in Afghanistan and Iraq.

These people have nowhere to go.

Like the Armenians of 1915.

They walk into the unknown future.

Hoping their children will escape their fate.

But there is only one solution.

End the wars.

Peace is the only answer.