Life-Growth Series
I have today elected to discuss here what concerns us all; what touches on the very fabric of our global existence, diplomacy and the use of kinetic powers to foist supremacy, to mediate peace and to bring a fragile order in an already charged world.
Before I start out here, let me confess my inadequacy for the topic I am about to discuss, to explore and to dwell on.
But who is more qualified than those who bore the unfortunate brunt of actions meditated upon at the Pentagon, at Israel’s Knesset and deep down the rock bellies of Iran to discuss the 12-day anxious moments that gripped our world a few days ago?
I guess everyone who witnessed and felt what we all witnessed and felt in those 12 Days of Gory Images of the reality of our current globe.
To that extent, we all are eminently qualified to speak on whatever touches on our shared humanity. That is if you ask me.
We were all partakers of the heart aches, the rising blood pressure arising from the gory images of missiles, drones, fighter jets, rising costs of energy and the possibility that anything could go awry anywhere, however far removed from the theatre of the conflicts anyone thought they were.
We saw it all from our sitting-rooms, office spaces and even bedrooms!
Everything left such a sour taste in the mouth that one sometimes wondered why someone would elect to return humanity to the age of bombs and kinetic powers on what diplomacy may well be the answer.
Make no mistake about it, to jaw-jaw remains superior to war-war, apologies to the original owner of those words.
Again, the reality is that in those 12 Days of Storm, the world lost 12 years of progress!
According to experts in the matters under consideration, in just 12 days, Israel and Iran used or lost over USD100 Billion.
The United States used or lost about 14 of its B2 57 Mass Ordinance Penetrators (MOP) bombs. This is apart from other bombs from tomahawks. I am told that each stealth bomber that undertook the mission to Iran’s Fowdor, Natanz and Esfahan has a price tag of USD2 Billion!
Imagine if the almighty US had lost one of those bombers said to be just 19 in their stock. With the irreplaceable human lives, the cost of such a loss could have, to say the least, been gargantuan.
Lessons from the 12 Days of Gory Images of Listlessness
If anyone asks me what lessons we have learnt in that 12-day show of shame and force in the Middle East, I do not have to even think to say the world has lost everything!
We lost peace.
We lost technology.
We lost lives, and in their numbers, if the world will negate the numbers you were fed from popular TV networks while the storms raged.
We lost conscience.
We lost our shared humanity and the we-feelings that have always made us empathize with our kind.
But more importantly, we saw the breaking of man’s invincibility in Iran, in Israel and even in the United States!
The central lesson, if you ask me about that 12-day war, remains the fact that God is still God, no matter how wise or powerful man gets in his own eyes.
If you doubt this, please review Iran’s internal security network, its military professionalism and armaments and juxtapose those with the efficacy or lack of it of the so-called Israel’s Iron Dome and the ongoing bickering on the results of the B2 bomber’s mission in Iran…and let me know what you think.
Until next month, everyone of us lost something in the 12-day Middle East war, what did you lose?
Finbars Aruwuonye
Secretary General, Muslims and Christians Initiative for Good Governance and Peaceful Globe
