world peace?

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

What are the first steps to world peace?

What would it take for the world to be more peaceful?

Would people need to change how they think, for the world to be peaceful?

 

[DrLeftover]

There are those that would tell you with a straight face that if the USA were to suddenly vanish then the world would be a total utopia.

However, said idealists ignore a couple of things.

If anything that could loosely be called American were removed from the scene, think about the vacuum that would create in everything from the world's economy, and besides that...

Who would everybody that now stands around and complains about America turn to when their third world hellhole of a country suffers some sort of disaster for a handout?

 

[Evil Eye]

Option 1: The dissolution of nation states, city states, tribes, any sort of social order. You can't have a war that way, literally.
Option 2: A purge of 90% of the world's population. Not guaranteed to work, of course, but fairly foolproof.
Option 3: Erasure of national, cultural, regional, religious, etc. identity. Without ideals to fight for you'd still be able to fight over land and resources, but it'd be a good first step.
Option 4: Move everyone to a different planet. That way this world's at peace.
Option 5: Move different ideological groups to different (but equal) planets... and destroy the ships that brought them there.

Who would everybody that now stands around and complains about America turn to when their third world hellhole of a country suffers some sort of disaster for a handout?

Obviously there wouldn't be any (natural) disasters without the USA around.

 

[DrLeftover]

And there would be no global warming either.

 

[Evil Eye]

And there would be no global warming either.

Or disease!

 

[DrLeftover]

But the US is evil....

13 June

The first thing you hear is the music. It lilts and sways. Then you see the Islamist militants. They’re knocking at a policeman’s door. It’s the middle of the night, but the cop soon answers. He’s blindfolded and cuffed. They take him to the bedroom. And then, reports say, they decapitate him with a knife.

Another video captures militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) herding hundreds of boys and Iraqi soldiers down a highway to an unknown fate. “Repent,” ISIS told inhabitants of its newly conquered territory on Thursday. “But anyone who insists upon apostasy faces death.”

Death was everywhere in the sacked the city of Mosul, a strategically vital oil hub and Iraq’s largest northern city. One reporter said an Iraqi woman in Mosul claimed to have seen a “row of decapitated soldiers and policemen” on the street. Other reports spoke of “mass beheadings,” though The Washington Post was not able to confirm the tales.

But the United Nations Human Rights chief, Navi Pillay, said the summary executions “may run into the hundreds” and that she was “extremely alarmed.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/13/isis-beheadings-and-the-success-of-horrifying-violence/

 

[Evil Eye]

But the US is evil....

Two things can be evil at once

 

[DrLeftover]

Then what is this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27858692

?

 

[DrLeftover]

Only two?

16 June

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town for hours, killing those who couldn't answer questions about Islam and those who didn't know the Somali language, officials and witnesses said Monday. At least 48 people were killed and two hotels were set on fire.

The assault in Mpeketoni began Sunday night as residents watched World Cup matches on TV and lasted until early Monday, with little resistance put up by Kenya's security forces. Cars and buildings still smoldered at daybreak.

Authorities blamed al-Shabab, Somalia's al-Qaida-linked terror group, who have vowed to carry out terror attacks to avenge the Kenyan military presence in Somali. Along with its Somali fighters, the group also has many Kenyan adherents.

http://news.yahoo.com/48-kenyans-dead-witness-gunmen-spared-muslims-111827525.html

 

[Evil Eye]

One, two, X. I imagine it depends on who you ask, I'm sure they don't think they're evil.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27858692

The [...] aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Gulf, accompanied by two more warships. [...] no US troops will be deployed on the ground in Iraq.

Well... that seemed fairly obvious.

 

[DrLeftover]

Well... that seemed fairly obvious.

and you believed that ?

17 June
BAGHDAD — President Obama notified Congress on Monday that about 275 U.S. military personnel are deploying to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Obama also said the troops are equipped for combat and will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that they are no longer needed.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/06/16/iraq-insurgency/10569133/

 

[Evil Eye]

I doubted it would last. It just seemed like the sort of literal truth you'd get from a genie. (You know, the ones that muck up your wishes by giving you exactly what you asked for.)

 

[DrLeftover]

20 June

Kenya's government has urged people to watch World Cup football matches in the comfort of their homes instead of in "crowded and unprotected open places".

The advice comes after two days of attacks on Kenya's coast earlier this week left more than 60 people dead.

They started in Mpeketoni as people were watching football on Sunday.

The interior ministry said that although security had been beefed up across the country, bar and restaurant owners should take extra precautions.

Somalia's Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the attacks over two days in and around the town of Mpeketoni in revenge for the presence of Kenyan troops in Somalia and the killing of Muslims.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27942131