Power Problems
Teacher: Devra Parker
Kirk
Inslee
12th
Grade
All of my life, I have been an active attendee of Church.
During my church attendance and when reading newspapers or watching
television, Billy Graham has often been noted for one of his speeches at
evangelical rallies across the country. In
many people's minds, this religious icon has been a world leader of peace.
It
was Graham who said, “We must have military power to keep madmen from taking
over the world.” These words are
correct as long as the leader is moral and does not shirk his duty of protecting
the people. Billy Graham is saying
that in order to keep the evildoers in our world from being successful, we need
to have a military power capable of stopping them.
I agree with Billy Graham. Terrorists
are gaining more knowledge every year. Therefore,
we need a group of people with the ability to face these madmen in a state of
emergency. As long as we keep
giving more freedoms to people, other countries are going to have madmen that
try to stop it. Giving more
freedoms makes people in other countries angry that their government will not do
the same. I am sure that they feel
like they should get the same liberties as people do in America.
We were all created as equals in God’s eyes, but our worlds’ are not
always the same.
"The
submarine may be the cause of bringing battle to a stoppage altogether, for
fleets will become useless, and as other war materiel continues to improve, war
will become impossible." Jules
Verne’s words from the early 1900's discuss when submarines were becoming a
new tactical weapon, which explains why he thought they would bring a stop to
fighting on the ground. This was a
big jump for mankind, which led him to believe that when more improvements are
made, war will be impossible to condone. I
disagree with this quote because I know that the submarine did not stop fighting
altogether and even after tremendous technological improvements, war is still
possible. Fleets still make an
immense difference in present times. It
does not matter how advanced this world becomes.
War will always be a possibility.
"My
dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions.
As soon as men will find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly
destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace."
This is the belief of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, and I think his statement is
very true. Alfred is saying that
all the conventions throughout time have gotten us nowhere.
His main focus here is to understand that it only takes one little
explosive shell to destroy many blameless lives and when we understand that,
there will be peace. World
conventions are just a false sense of security that make people think everything
is going to be just fine. People
have no idea what goes on in those conventions except for what the press tells
us. It does not hit home like
thousands of soldiers and civilians being killed.
If taking away innocent lives is what it takes to achieve world peace, I
guess we will have to learn from our mistakes. The moment men realize that it
just takes one bomb to leave behind everything that they love in life is the
time men will conclude that there is a way around having to die to get peace.
"I
don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming
there will be a third world war. But
I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with—stone
clubs." In stating this,
Albert Einstein must believe that the third world war is going to frighten
people enough to convince them to revert back and settle conflicts the old way,
using men over machines, instead of progressing forward with more new
technology. If I had to pick a
prediction that I think would play out to be the most precise; I would choose
this one. Technology is starting to
be more harmful than valuable. Nothing
will ever be good enough. Before
long, the wrong weapons are going to fall into the hands of the wrong man and a
horrific dilemma is going to happen. From
then on, arguments will be settled in a different manner.
At this current time in history we are experiencing this exact dilemma.
Madmen or terrorists, as may
be the case, have gotten hold of advanced
technology and have used it to destroy the safety net that
has been in place in
the United States. Hopefully, men
like Billy Graham, George Bush, and other
leaders of peace will be able to find
a way to restore the comfort ability that has created such a
clement nation.