History clearly tells us that it is foolish to wage wars. Alexander the Great and Hitler were among the greatest war-mongers the world had ever known. They set out to conquer every country that they could lay their hands on. They succeeded to a certain extent, but what was the unavoidable outcome of their mad ambitions? They were mortal. They had to die and with their death their dreams and ambitions perished too. Germany is literally divided into two. The greed and madness of one man had brought about the tragedy of a whole nation.

Yet nations of today continue to wage war against one another. There are a million excuses offered to justify one nation’s aggression toward another. In the name of race, creed, religion, economy and self-defense, nations attack one another. Hitler proclaimed the superiority of his Aryan race. Japan believed it was their divine duty to subjugate the barbarians. Religious fanatics murder in the name of God. Each nation imagines itself more superior, better and prouder than the others. So the nations of the world continue to be at loggerheads. Strife prevails. Peace is just a dream.

If any nation will just reflect of the fate of nations before them, they will find that no nation, however great or powerful it may proclaim itself to be, had ever endured. The mystery of the Aztecs, the Mayans, Ancient Egypt, Cathay, Rome and other once great civilizations bear testimony to the fact that all greatness must end. The end may even be total, as in the cases of the legendary Atlantis and the remnants of Stonehenge in England. What were they? How did they end? We can only guess and speculate. We only know that once they were great. They are no longer.