A near death in the unforgiving desert
Graeme (Who am I?) , Canberra: Jul 19 2008
Made Popular Jul 19 2008
Scotsman journalist Emma Cowing almost lost her life in the searing heat of Afghanistan. Her ordeal exposed an unwritten danger facing our troops. Here she tells her story
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Jul 19 2008
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Graeme,
Thanks for this Newslink.
I recently did a story on Musa Qala:
http://madkat70.instablogs.com/entry/british-find-it-impossible-to-rebuild-musa-qala-in-afghanistan/

I am glad the young journalist got saved. But it is intriguing that in war zones there are killings and on the other hand they go to a great extent and save a life.
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it is intriguing that in war zones there are killings and on the other hand they go to a great extent and save a life.

That is the great irony of war. Think how sweet the world would be if a little less money went into war and a little more into saving lives. How a little pre-emptive life-giving in select areas of the world may alleviate potential social, political or other problems before they arise and stop future conflicts before they even start. All of this listless activity which masquerades as diplomacy at times could be itself pre-empted and politicians should not have to travel the world and lie to one another.
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Grace (Who am I?)
Quezon City, Philippines
Then, you need to eradicate the existence of governments.
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Getting rid of governments won’t help because something else will just rush into the vacuum left by them. Governments are a fact and this is just the way the world has developed. In all utilitarian humility - it would not help this world for a moment for it’s current systems and structures to just up and vanish. They just need to evolve a little, or a lot, and together, as one system, one world.
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Grace (Who am I?)
Quezon City, Philippines
I mean erase the organized political structures that govern. Put the power in the community elders. Sounds tribal, huh. Sounds like setting the stage for tribal wars.

But that’s how it was in the Asia Pacific and Oceania before, and it seemed to have worked for many, many years.
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Grace (Who am I?)
Quezon City, Philippines
54 degrees Celsius! My mind already plays tricks on me at 34!
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Yes. I think it is probably fairly close to zero degrees Celsius here. Forecast for -2.

:)
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Grace (Who am I?)
Quezon City, Philippines
What I’m trying to say is that life was so much simpler when the decision-making process was tribal, and among the revered elders of the group.

It got screwed when the concept of ’governance’ and ’political science’ got invented.
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Grace,
Communities are not conflict-free either.
I feel the world order is conflicting due to lopsided development and unequal distribution of resources and control over these resources.
I may be wrong. But I don’t see an end to these wars as long as everyone does not arrive at an consensus about sharing resources and have a single global economy and currency.
Unfortunately this is absurd talk...
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Grace (Who am I?)
Quezon City, Philippines
Yeah, I know how hopeless that all sounds, Madhuri. It’ll never be a level playing field until there are organized, huge, bureaucratic political infrastructures that want to gobble up larger and larger tracts of land.

It used to work for tribes only because of smaller territories. But that’s not how it’s done anymore.

Now, the trend is globalization. There are fewer owners of this globe now.
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