Etched in my memory, when travelling through Germany last century, I visited what is left of Dachau Concentration Camp. The frosty cold morning matched our mood as we all went our own ways to wander through the site. No one talked to each other. What I also remember is a sign - "Never Again".
Do we learn from the past? Man's inhumanity to man. It continues in different ways, with different technology ... and then we need to put good men and women in a place where they need to make decisions of life and death to stop the inhumanity ... and we find, it is never straight forward. We are above all things, human. Very complex, very imperfect. In my last blog I contemplated the resurgence of nuclear weapons and restocking of these weapons by various countries. It had taken decades last century to bring the world back from the edge, and I wondered what was it that was so successful to achieve that end. I wondered whether we could learn from it.
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December 2019
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