The Mind Lounge

If only War is just a game of Football

Yep , just chilling in the room listening to some Euge Groove tunes , a lil bit of Musiq Soulchild , a touch of Tompi and a few sprinkles of Notorious B.I.G on this calm afternoon :) . Been watching ( and recording :P ) a lot of football friendlies these past few days . Suddenly this mind wonders ' hmm if only War is settled through football or any other sport ' . Crazy ? maybe it is .

I watch a lot of BBC , CNN and Bernama in my workplace . And reports about wars occur every single day .. even minutes ! War is overrated nowadays . Greedy folks looking to gain more foothold in the world's economy by taking other country's resources in the name of War Againts Terrorism seems like a normal Modus Operrandi nowadays . War is an expensive campaign . You develop weapons , deploy thousands of soldiers , properties get destroyed etc ... Such a costly campaign for such an unhonourable act on humanity . Getting rid of people from their homes , violating them , taking away their economic resources and comitting genocide seems to be the core ingredients when cooking up this campaign .

And to shift the world's focus from the real bad guys are these 'terrorists' ..or Islamic terrorist :P . Terrorists who are so-called Holy Warriors fighting in the name of religion but not realising the damage done on normal everday living Muslims in this world . Now the world thinks that every Muslim is bad or either has a bomb strapped underneath his shirt .

Sad picture .

Look , these guys are hot headed in nature , piss them off and they'll attack you , simple as that . So the real bad guys , being smart , uses these terrorists to do their job . Pissing them off , they attack , the world cries for justice ... and then these real bad guys would be able to start their campaign and not being seen as evil to the world's eyes . They go and invade in the name of War Against Terrorism when their actual motive is not really on gaining more territorial ground , but more of an economical one . Killing 2 birds with 1 stone ? maybe so .

Now , when you think that it is slowly getting calmer , they start to become greedier . They start looking at other places . What a vicious cycle . The sad thing is , soldiers die for nothing nowadays . Why waste your life on some greedy quest ? When will it all end ?

That's why I have this idiotic idea of settling disputes through a game of football hehe .. instead of saying : " We have developed a new biological weapon , able to wipe out cities in a single blow " ... we can hear something like : " We have found a new young striker who can dribble , score goals and is very fast " . And all is settled on the pitch . Very minimum damages done , less money spent on destruction , more towards sportmanship and unity .

But we all know that will never happen , as long as money is the driving force for success and power . Please do not take my writing too seriously , this is what I do when I have that little bit of free time hehe . .. coming up with crazy ideas .

Looking forward to a good World Cup 2006 , but , there are more important things to look forward to in my books :) ..