"Correct, I am not saying that. I am saying that those who died were
meant to die and those who didn‘t were meant to live, just as those who
helped them made a choice, and those who didn‘t made a different choice.
There is no judgement either way. There is only the energetic intent to
participate in any circumstance, which contributes to the momentum of
similar events."
"Okay, but a month ago you said we shouldn‘t go to war, as in the
media shouldn‘t cover them."
"As in no one should go," she corrected me. "I told you, peace simply
=is‘ if you leave it alone. You can only further war by going to war in any
capacity."
"But you included peacekeeping armies, as I recall," which I did
because for all of my apparent failings I had a steel-trap memory. It was
why I was rarely caught in a lie. Before now, anyway.
"So that we are clear, are you asking me why we can provide relief in
a famine, but not in a war?"
"Sorry, yes. I hadn‘t quite formulated the question."
"That‘s a convenient habit you need to break."
"I… right, I understand."
"If a conflict is artificially ended," Bonnie tackled my question, "the
reasons for it remain intact and you are postponing the inevitable, because
peace is not something that can be imposed. It has to be sustained by the
free will of the population, just as a country cannot go to war without their
silent agreement, if not overt consent."
I nodded that I understood the principle: we all were in charge.
"The reasonable point of view is that Peacekeepers stop the suffering,
but it is short-sighted. Their temporary influence allows cultures and
combatants time to sharpen their beliefs, and arm their children with them,
when the developmental lesson is to not follow in their father‘s footsteps."
She shrugged sadly. "The nature of the Peacekeeper‘s actions is to
interfere with an undeniable lesson—the end point manifestations of
thoroughly crappy beliefs, which will kill the combatant‘s, their children,
and their children‘s children, until they finally understand what they are
doing. Logically, the impeccable choice would be to let them slaughter
themselves as an undeniably impressive lesson they have failed to learn in
other ways. Then we can help the survivors, who now know better."
"I get the principle. Still…"
"You are thinking about the innocents that still haunt you, but that is
your conformation to reasoning imposing itself on the de velopmental
overview." She touched my arm. "You needed this experience to see the
big picture when it was time, which is now." She removed her touch and
