What is the correct definition for war and terrorism?

War has become so ordinary, it has lost its original meaning.

At this moment we have wars for everything; still, war is just another way of conducting harmful and aggressive acts, which have brought untold sorrow to mankind and instability to the international stage.

Our society has come to a point where we don't need wars any more.

Now, we have plenty of international organizations and laws to help secure peace among nations.

These include the United Nations, Security Council, Diplomacy, and Geneva Convention.

In our modern world, war is pointless: it starts with negotiations and diplomacy, followed by military actions, and ends with diplomacy and negotiation.

With the proper use of real diplomacy, not gunboats and cowboys, wars could be avoided.

However, it appears these days wars do not start with the leader or the ruler of one country; war rather starts with the industries which benefits from it.

As old saying reads: "in war there are two kinds of people; ones who profits from it and ones who suffers from it".

Terrorism is immature and perfidious, but a highly organized violent act without emotions or regret for loss of innocent lives and without respect for international laws.

Terrorism is usually triggered by war and some sort of dissatisfaction.

These include political disagreements, retaliation, personal disappointment and religion, among others.

Terrorists feel like actors, as the more media attention their actions get, the more we are going to see them.

Maybe, the world would be a better place without discoveries and inventions including gun powder by the Chinese, dynamite by Alfred Nobel and Uranium by Pierre and Maria Curie.

With these inventions and discoveries, a new era of war and terror began, an era that destroyed millions of lives, homes, countries and cultures.

Will additional wars prevent terrorism, or will additional terrorism prevent further wars? It is impossible to tell.

The leaders of war and terrorism believe they are doing the right thing, maybe, as we speak a new war and terrorist attack is being prepared somewhere in the world.

However, one thing is clear, people suffer every day because of it.

IVAN SIMIC
Belgrade

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