WAR...What is it Good For?

Sometimes it's really scary and depressing to read all this stuff at work and get the feeling that the world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war and World War III. Every day it's like watching a parade of negativity march past your eyes: Hamas. Hezbollah. Al-Qaida. Jihad. Soldier deaths. Suicide bombers. Israel. Iran. Iraq. Afghanistan. Syria. Lebanon. Kidnappings. Beheadings. Violence.

Chaos.

It literally pops the bubble you normally operate in...that "the war is over there, it's not here" bubble that pulls the veil over your eyes to such a degree that if you just didn't frequent the media, you could believe it's not happening at all.

But it's those moments of reality that literally freak you out. You start to grasp that this whole thing is exploding and sending ripples out, ripples that will start to reach different corners of the world. And every country has an opinion, a stance. According to our president, you're either with us or against us. I just really feel this is going to turn into a much worse situation, one that's going to have us involved in so many different places at once that I don't know how we'll be able to maintain all our fingers in all those pies. The world is divided. It feels like very few are on our side.

To boot, HATE is wending its sticky tendrils into this mess, forcing its black undertones to seep into the shadows of these conflicts, solidifying them into beasts that can't easily be conquered.

Sometimes, not only as a journalist but as a person, I get really scared to be alive in the time we're in. Technology and weaponry are at their heights, and they don't stop short of total destruction. Terrorism is an unseen enemy, even though we've taken on the task of battling it. It's like fighting the air. It's like digging a hole in quicksand; just when you've rid the hole of some sand, it fills in with more. How do you forever fix something like this? We're not fighting something concrete. We're fighting a mentality.

And sometimes, I get really afraid that there's no answer to all this. Will this be going on our whole lives? Will there ever be peace?