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The nuclear threat is not the only one and has not prevented an obscene amount of killing in recent conmflicts.

Many people seem to think wars are inevitable - nothing will ever stop them happening.

This is not the case. Wars happen because each nation is allowed to have its own army. When nations fall out, it does not take long before one lot starts killing the other. These days the killing is not just of rival soldiers but is quite random, women and children, the sick and the elderly are all fair game for the bombs and shells. In Syria, to take but one example, it may well be your own government which becomes the main killer.

This is an appalling situation but at present there is nobody able to call a halt.

It need not be like this. If the UN was given the legal right to take command of all the world’s armies it could then deploy them strictly for peacekeeping purposes, for rooting out illegally held weapons and for preventing the researching, manufacturing and marketing of new weapons. The UN could set up structures for resolving disputes impartially in accordance with the Charter of Human Rights.

We can’t leave this to the politicians. We, the peoples of the world, have to make it happen. See

http://www.garrettjones.talktalk.net and

www.futureworthhaving.co.uk

