As America can surely attest, it’s a lot easier to start a war than to end one. Pull a trigger, press a button and you are off to the races. Stopping a war is a much more complicated process. Signing a treaty does not bring the dead back to life. It also doesn’t change the fact that war has become a way of life for all of those involved. If the war has gone on long enough, it might be all that young people know. They haven’t been able to experience the wonderful and awkward moments of adolescence. It’s hard to worry about something as seemingly insignificant as acne or dating when the more pressing issue of survival is hanging overhead. And then the war stops. Suddenly you can take the time to enjoy the company of a nice young lady. You can flirt and make love. But just below the surface all the awful muck of the past lies in waiting. And when you’ve become accustomed to taking orders, it is hard to stop. Though World War II ended nearly seventy years ago, we are still dealing with its fallout today. There are no clean breaks.
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