War and democracy

Throughout its history humanity achieved great advances in technology but not in understanding of real values. Why we need to face a war to start to really appreciate peace. Why oil, money and territorial frontiers are much more important than the lives of human beings. Why we, humanity, are not able to understand that our lives are limited in time and within this short period we should try to build peace and not to unleash wars.

Today the whole world is speaking about democracy as the fairest system of governance. This fairest system gives us an opportunity to elect those who will be responsible for our lives and fates. In this regard, I am wondering if these democratically elected representatives of authority ask their electors if they want to be at war. Why a person who kills the other person is a criminal and the one who started the war during which hundreds of people died is not considered as such. Why living in poverty we allow our government to spend a huge amount of budget money on ammunitions.

I believe that common people want just to live, work and develop their country in peace and stability; to create families and have children and not to think that tomorrow their sons will have to die for the realization of the ambitious plans of their democratically elected presidents. People are tired of instability and inconstancy in their lives.

I want to be convinced that in the 21st century we will be able to find the ways that will allow us to live in a real democracy where those whom we elect will take the voice of each of us into consideration. I am absolutely sure that the real democratic countries never initiate wars…