War & Peace

In the world of Battlestar Galactica, the human species is down to about 2,000 members as they have for the most part lost the battle to the divinity seeking robots they created, the Cylons. The latest series have the human living as an occupied and oppressed society. The humans (called "insurgents") attempt terrorists acts like suicide bombings in order to disrupt the machinations of their robot oppressors. It's fascinating. The show brings you inside the mindset up what it might be like living in Baghdad or Palistine these days. The robots are even creating a human police force to better police the people themselves, similar to the Iraqi forces that are supposed to stand up sometime. There is a wide spectrum of human reactions from those aiding the Cylons to the insurgents, to those in families just trying to survive.

Latest thought on the show is that it demonstrates that even with a small population and with an outside enemy, humans still aren't able to get along. There is always going to be ugly politics. It might have to get down the point where there are one or two people before there's really peace. Even three seems like an unstable number.

But in our attempt to recognize contributions towards peace, let me congratulate, Muhamed Yunus and the Grameen bank he founded. The whole ideal of microcredit and fighting poverty on the frontlines is a brilliant concept, that has helped lots and lots of people around the world. It's also interesting that poverty is being recognized as a force that is disruptive to peace, as much so as guns or weapons.

Let peace reign.