Effective use of enemies.

This last week finished the run on one of the shows I’ve been watching. The Gundam 00 plot puts forth an interesting notion to me. Just a quick synopsis for y’all, Gundam 00 is about a group of people who go try and stop all the conflict on the Earth. They do this by coming up with a vastly superior weapon, than most of the militaries in the world. Then, they set out to resolve conflict anywhere. However, they don’t pick sides. So, let’s say the IRA and UK are fighting over whatever it is they’ve been fighting hundreds of years for. Then move on to a resolve problems against both sides in the Middle East. They would swoop in and pretty much destroy both sides. This causes the world to unite against them, countries are united and borders dissolved, so in a way they reach their goals.

Are these the type of guys we should do away with?

What has occupied my mind as of late, is can this type of model actually be applied to the real world? For example, if we went in Sri Lanka and just took out all the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lanka forces, what would the result of that conflict be? In the end, you give the people something to hate other than themselves. Humankind will always have someone to hate, someone that they want to do harm to. They’ll always feel that some group has slighted them, or has done something to their ancestors that they just can’t forgive. However, if you give them something to fear or hate, other than their own minor petty conflict, what would the result be? Human beings always get united when facing adversity. Is it so absurd to think that the only reason we have conflict, is because we don’t have things to hate?

If we were able to implement some sort of campaign against conflict, it would also prevent Genocide. I don’t need to say that a fast acting completely intervention force, would be great to resolve all these conflicts. I know that many of that are reading this now might be thinking, well that’s what the US is doing. The problem is that it’s not effective. The US is an established entity. You’re giving others a physical target that they can strike against, and cause terrorism. However, if the organization wasn’t affiliated with any physical location or government it can move and be a focus of hatred, but with no way of countering.

Gundam 00, pictured above, one of the best shows the last 2 years, in my opinion

Now, some might argue, that in essence I’m saying fight terrorism, with terrorism. Which is one of the things that Gundam 00, talks about during the series. The characters are of the opinion that they are sinners and will be punished, once they accomplish their goals and unite the world to a common goal.
In my mind, I really think that this could be one way to get rid of some of the conflict in the world. It just makes sense to me. In fact, if we could stop genocides and injustices across the world and unite it’s people, no price would be too high for me. Even if it meant giving up a portion of my way of life, I’d do it in a heartbeat.