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RULE OF ENGAGEMENT IN A WAR

RULE OF ENGAGEMENT IN A WAR

The rule of engagement in war is that civilians should not be deliberately targeted in a time of war or peace ..... when this happens, the warring party responsible is deemed to have committed war crime and should be prosecuted ...... wherever they are ....

All forms of terrorism should be condemned in the same spirit of fairness.... nations cannot use imbalance weight to measure how and when to condemn acts of terrorism - if your ally commits war crimes by killing innocent journalists, citizens (whose only offense is that they are family of a terrorist), and civilians... don't just advise them, hold them accountable the same way you hold their opponents accountable ......

There is a saying in my language that when a sheep (a supposed docile animal) is pushed to the wall and it has no where else to go, it will bite like a dog......

Peace cannot be forced and delivered by high handedness.... it can only be negotiated.... for peace to reign in any sphere (personal life, communities, nations, regions, and globally), there must be give and take..... HISTORY for centuries has shown this to be true many times over.... The Afghan situation is an example....Russia and the US failed miserably to use force to stamp their authority ....... you cannot kill ideology out of a people, you have to present alternatives..... and in doing so, measure with a cup you want to be measured to you.....

May peace reign in our world.....

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