The Psychological Effects of Wars
Almost everyday we hear news about wars- the number of body counts and how they died and what caused the deaths. Wars are full of deceit, hate and pain, it is a reminder that people tend to forget promises and governments are willing to sacrifice its soldiers for an imagined sovereignty and freedom. One way to expose the ugliness of wars is through words and some quotes about deceit may prove its ugliness and how it affects our lives:
“All war is deception.”
“A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.”
Humans naturally violent, it is deeply seeded in our genes, it is one way to protect ourselves when we were savages. We are no longer the savage that we were, we are now logical and scientific beings who can reason and think for a better way to address a situation. Unfortunately, the hunger for violence, for greed is still with us. After a war has ended, it leaves its footprints in our lives it create that void in our spirit, it leaves its ugliness in everything.
The effects of wars can be described in several words, words that won’t matter anyway. There are victims; the children, the mothers and all of us. But, we do this to ourselves, to prove who is better and who’s more powerful. Governments against governments, citizens against leaders and nations against nations. We have seen it all but we go back and do the same thing over and over again.
When a war has ended, the most affected are the normal citizens, those who were raped, murdered, massacred and who experienced cruelty. In the past world wars, women were turned into comfort women, raped again and again and killed. Those who have escaped, they brought the pain with them, until they died the natural way. The trauma, the sleepless nights these are all brought by inhumane treatments they have received. The men, are tortured, killed or turned into slaves. Men and women were murdered in different ways- some through hunger, slavery and torture. After the war ended the country who lost the war pays repatriation but usually, those who lost the wars are small countries unable to protect their own.
Afghanistan is another tangible evidence of greed and deceit, people are blinded by religion and beliefs that asked them to do ugly things to serve what some people long for. As a result children, women and the elders suffer. Rape, torture and pain is an everyday thing. It is as normal as breathing, the smell of decay and hopelessness can be smelled. People’s eye show no more fear of death only hate and violence. Some quotes about Afghanistan can tell us more about the situation it was on during the war:
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.
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