A Random Thought~
After watching the '24 Olympics in Paris I was curious about how many countries and people participated so I looked it up. There were 206 participating countries and approximately 10,500 individual athletes competing for team and individual medals. Watching all those athletes from so many countries, speaking so many languages, representing so many ethnicities and religions and seeing the joy they seemed to feel at just being there rubbing shoulders, competing and making friends across the globe made me wonder; why are there wars? In my lifetime it seems that most wars, big and small, were started by leaders motivated by greed for power, money or land; radical religious beliefs, racial or ethnic prejudice or deranged egos.