Bombs will NEVER Destroy Aspirations...

Fire Destroyed the Wine Country in northern California...
Check the photo... No explanation needed... After fire gutted many homes... 

And or But,

The last few days I am thinking about the "victory" in Raqqa... the "capital" of non-existent state "IS..."

Is the lose of geographic space defeat...? I am not so certain...! 

Is destruction of cities and "collateral" damage of human life... the collapse of Islamic Jihadism...? I doubt that claim...!

Destruction and death have never led to liberation...

Bombing the hell out of people have never ushered in freedom...

Two examples...

Turkey massacred and deported Armenians from their ancestral lands... possessed their fields and businesses and homes... destroyed their churches... raped their mothers and sisters... But never defeated the spirit of Armenian aspirations for liberty and freedom... and peace and the dream to return to their homeland... 

For their dream to return Armenians are inspired by the Jewish example... when after two millennia they returned to Israel...

An Armenian poet writes... "We have conquered... by our books only..." and concludes his poem by; "We exist... and will always exist... and we'll multiply..." 

The Genocide of Armenians by successive Turkish regimes will never succeed and Turkish denials will be exposed eventually... Even after two millennia Jews returned to Israel...!

Also,

Turkey has subjugated the Kurdish people... has declared them to be "Mountainous Turks..." Turks have denied the existence of a kurdish nation... They are just Turks living on the land, up in the mountains and engaged in cultivating the land and shepherding the sheep, they said... But the Kurds persisted living peacefully of Nature... and dreaming of a homeland... The Turkish regimes denied the Kurdish culture... banning Kurdish language from schools and harassing Kurdish language... Kurdish customs and culture...

But the Turks have never conquered Kurdish aspirations of  a homeland freedom and liberty...

And,

Raqqa, Syria...

The destruction of a city... an an increase in "collateral" victims... the murderous wars... the killing of the "other" has never ushered in freedom and liberty... and brought back the pursuit of happiness... 

  
Check the streets of Raqqa... Check the destruction... and decide... what next...

The globalization of terror and inhuman behaviour...

At least 5,600 supporters of so-called Islamic State (IS) have returned to their home countries as it loses ground in Iraq and Syria, a new report says. The Soufan Center, a US-based think tank, says 33 states have reported arrivals in the past two years. The figure includes half of the estimated 850 people who left the UK. The report says the returnees - most of whom are imprisoned or disappear from view - will continue to present a security challenge for years to come. IS has lost much of the territory that once made up the "caliphate" it proclaimed in June 2014, attracting thousands of jihadists from across the world. Last week, US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters said they had taken full control of Raqqa, the jihadists' de facto capital.

Just a question... 

What will the returning Islamic Jihadists do...?


The Islamic Jihadists exploited the Arab discontent... and the

failure of "The Arab Spring..." along with the atrocities of the

Iraqi and Syrian wars... provided them fertile ground to sprout

and flourish...

And that same fertile ground of Arab discontent still exists...

and it will feed future waves of violence...

Maybe Western democracies and the U.S. should revise their

policies towards the Middle East... Maybe they should stop

supporting Kings and Sheikhs and despots... Maybe the world

should listen to the cries of the people and espouse their

aspirations for liberty and freedom...

Brandishing nuclear weapons have never been the answer...

Maybe listening to the people will be the better option... and

maybe leashing unbridled greed for profit and fossil fuel... will

bring in peace and prosperity to the people of the Middle East too...


Check the damage of fossil fuel... in India...


Heavy smog blanketed New Delhi last week... How much of this people can stand... will stand... Credit
Do we want to live in a polluted air like this...?
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Progress or Globalization of Sexism...?

You'll be the judge...

Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad holds a hijab-wearing "Barbie Shero" in her likeness at the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards on Monday...

Mattel unveiled its first hijab-wearing Barbie doll on Monday, modelled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammed, who has broken ground herself as the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete in the head scarf...

But, isn't Barbie is a sexist toy... ? And a sexist toy with a scarf is not progress but rather the commercialization of religion... as it is the case with Christmas...

A final question for no...

Why females are beautiful and males are handsome... ?

The concepts enmeshed in our language are sexist... 

A corollary, a follow up of the above question...

Why females have to paint their faces and males will look macho with a stubble on their faces... ?  

You will be the judge and eventually come to a conclusion...