Political conflict Mans history. How do you describe it? War after war. Struggle after struggle.

Just to achieve power. In todays society, people have this misconception that it its kill or be killed, rule or be ruled. Men will kill to rule, men will betray to rule. And all over the world, since men walked this earth, history has been repeating itself. But have they ever asked themselves this: what really is the difference between nobles and commoners, president and a common citizen? Both are people, coincidentally, miraculously born in the same century, in the same world. And yet, why must there be a distinction between the two? That one is more important than the other? How has the world changed this much? That it is divided into two separate categories: the precious and the unloved. What is so different between two humans that they can be treated differently? Spoken to differently? Kings and leaders have fought horrendous battles against each other, giving orders from their big palaces and mansions. Men against men. Armoury against armoury. And yet, they have never thought of the cost. The cost to the common people, the cost to the innocents. Who were the ones being slaughtered in the wars? Who were the ones forced to continue with their mundane lives; working on the farm and earning their living? Who were the ones who had to give up all their hard-earned savings to a cause they played no part in? Who were the ones who lost family members to the ravages of war? And yet, the chiefs and king and queens of these people continued relaying orders, continued destroying the livelihood of these people, continued marching themselves to their own doom. How is it that these people never learn from history? That this race to the top is not worth the thousands of innocent lives? What drives them to this madness? What is it in them that makes them so different, that they have the right to kill so many others just to let them rule

over more subjects. They said that they were doing the best for their own country, but are they speaking from their heart? Is their cause noble or just