Gun With the Wind

Last night,  My Movie Channel featured the classic waromance, " Gone with the Wind." It depicted the Scarlett- Rhett uncivilized tension in the midst of the Civil War between the North and the South USA then. Decades later in the last century, there would be tension between East and West Berlin, North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, and intra-Cambodia and Burma. In the Philippines, we are currently reviewing our Framework Agreement with the BangsaMoro of the South, in Mindanao. Hopefully, peace with the leftist New People's Army would follow. And so  between PH-China et al, Israel-Palestine, Russia -Ukraine, intra- Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya ... The list is epic!

Television coverage of these hotspcots reminds viewers of adults playing children's war games. "When will they ever learn?"a folk song goes. To go to war is human,  to get into mediation is divine, to paraphrase another saying.