The days of peace are over and these are turbulent times.

Political struggle never really seeks to come to a mutual understanding to any problem. It always results in one of two things. The ultimate destruction of the other and the survivors leaving the battle fighting not their opponents but their own friends or it could also mean the ultimate destruction of the whole and the failure of both parties to reconcile to come even to a win-lose resolution but a lose-lose resolution. More often it's the first that occurs.

Trite but true friendships end in political strife. Between the former friends in opposing camps and the former friends in the camp that loses. War never leaves anything intact. Think of a magnificent city, blown into rubble and brimstone by a rain of artillery shells. What might have taken years of labour to build was destroyed in a matter of seconds. It happens often. Amidst the ashes and the ruins, one can only stand up and imagine what was and remember it. They can try to build the city the same way it was before but that would have been impossible physically or they could make do with what they had and worked with them.

Imagine a man waking up amongst the ruin of his house, his wife and children dead, he goes across the street to find his neighbour crushed underneath a falling chunk of the ceiling. He dials his friend's numbers only to get no answer. He is but alone in this grim aftermath...but wait...he hears a voice! He runs to the source to find a man just as lonesome as he is. Now just wait a second, that man was the rude store clerk that had given him the finger the other day. However in such a grim situation no one wants to be alone even if its with people you don't like or normally can't stand. It beats being alone.

It is amongst the people who live on to fight another day who become your allies not the people who have gone. A future has to be made to survive. You work with whoever is left.

I have given too much in just this one academic year to just throw it away. I want to see it through not for my own benefit but for the benefit of all who are left.

Then there are the aid workers from other cities of course......

You don't call a person who works with a former enemy a traitor to his former cause, you call him a strategist.

Fighting the enemy even amongst the destruction creates not but more destruction. Think of it strategically. Even enemies are friends if you have a common goal.

Friends who don't share a common goal can still be friends

A friend that forces his goal upon another, is not a friend but a dictator.

Friendship is like a democracy, with everyone coming together to make a decision, everyone is still entitled their point of view. Even if you do not have the same view, democracy ensures the most wins but the differences are not ignored. A friendship which expects complete unity, is not a democracy, it's a police state.

And so it comes to pass that great wall of mistrust is built, not between enemies but former friends. The world is set, the iron curtain in place and the cold war has begun....

This is so cold warish...Communist Russia vs the USA....so history like la!