SYRIAN WAR: THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE
Class, welcome to the study of another self propagated
theory: THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE
Conflict in human affairs is inevitable and over time it
has remained a cheap excuse for the perpetration of violence.
According
to Isaac Asimov, “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent,” a refuge
easily made rubbles that the perpetrator of violence would have to accept as
home.
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “the Roots of Violence: Wealth without
work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce
without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics
without principles." Everyday picture of everyday people, especially
people with some abstract measure of power.
True attributes of bullies. 
But
make no mistake to assume that bullies alone have in their possession the
recipe for violence. For as an African
adage goes, the fact that you lit a fire does not mean that the fire
cannot burn you. It is instinctively
human to defend oneself. Thus, violence
cannot be monopolized because the longer you hold a man down the longer you
stay down with him.
Syria was once a nation inhabited by a people whose only weapon in
opposition to their leader, in the past, was their voice. Today, these people own guns, bombs and an
uprising that will not yield to intimidation.
If violence could be monopolized, the Syrian President would definitely
have become a cheap imitation of a self assumed true monopolist of violence
like Adolf Hitler.
The whole essence of this study?
According to E. F. Schumacher, “any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot
of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
Class dismissed! 
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