NguJohn LaForge
Kunzima ukukhunjulwa kweMfazwe Yehlabathi I, ngenxa yexesha kunye noluntu, okanye ukungakhathaleli, uqoqosho lwezoqoqosho olusisigxina.
Malunga nomlobi wamabali waseBritane kwiMfazwe Enkulu u-HG Wells wabhala ngo-Agasti 14, 1914, “Le yeyona mfazwe inkulu ezimbalini. … Ngoku le yimfazwe yoxolo. Ijolise ngqo kwizixhobo. Ijolise kwindawo yokuhlala eya kumisa olu hlobo lwento ngonaphakade. Onke amajoni alwa neJamani ngoku ngumlo-mkhosi olwa imfazwe. Le, yeyona mfazwe inkulu kuzo zonke iimfazwe, ayisiyiyo enye imfazwe - yimfazwe yokugqibela! ”
I-Optimists ithe iya kuba mfutshane, "Ikhaya ngeKhisimusi!" Kunoko, bekuyiyona nto yokufa kwegazi ukuya kutsho kunye nokuqikelelwa kwe-16 kwi-37 yezigidi ezifile. Ukulwa kunye neminye yemfazwe yabulala ubuncinane izigidi zabantu eziziisixhenxe kunye nabasebenzi bezempi base-10, ngelixa izifo, indlala, i-pogroms kunye nokubulawa kwabantu babulala izigidi ezininzi. Kunokuba "ngonaphakade" imise imfazwe, ixesha elingazange lenzeke imfazwe kunye nokuxhaswa kwempindiselo yokuziphindiselela kwenzelwe iHlabathi yeMfazwe ye-II ye-70 yezigidi ezibulalayo, kunye nomzila oqhubekayo wokubulala imali osemthethweni oye waqhubeka. Olunye uqikelelo oluphantsi kukuba ekubeni "imfazwe ukuphelisa yonke imfazwe," malunga nabantu abayi-100 bafa kwimimandla yemfazwe.
Usuku lwe-Armistice lwalusungulwa kwi-1919 ukuhlonela uxolo, nokukhumbula nokukhumbula i-WW Ndibuhlungu, ukwesaba, ukwesaba, intlungu kunye nokulahleka. Kwi-1918, izihloko zagubungela: "I-Armistice Signed, Ukuphela kweMfazwe!" Kunye neSuku se-Armistice sasisiseko sokutshatyalaliswa kwezinto ezixabisa imfazwe, ukungafani, ukuxhoma, ukungabikho kokungabi nalutho kwaye ngokukhethekileyo ngokuchasene nokunyanzelwa kwezombusazwe ezithatha ixesha elide mbambano. Urhulumente waseNamhlanje waseUnited States uchitha amakhulu amabhiliyoni kwimisebenzi yokuvelisa izixhobo ezixhasayo kunye nokulwa kweemfazwe ezilandelayo. Ngethuba nje ama-allies e-US ahlala athengisa ioli kunye nekheshi kwiimfucu zase-US, nokuba zintlanzi, iidemokhrasi zangexesha eliphakathi njengeSaudi Arabia (eliye lalawula intolongo ye-600 inecala kusukela ngo-2014) zikhokhwa, zixutywe, zikhokelwa kwaye zinikezelwa ngokulwa kwimfazwe yazo ephazamisayo yokubangelwa yindlala kunye nokungondleki kweYemen.
NgoSeptemba ka-2014, xa wayetyelele amangcwaba amakhulu asemkhosini e-Italiya, uPopu walumkisa "ngesahlulo" seMfazwe yesithathu yeHlabathi enokuba sele iqalile - ngeemfazwe ezininzi eziqhubekayo, ezingachazwanga, ulwaphulo-mthetho lwaseburhulumenteni, ijet yomkhosi obaleka kunye nohlaselo lwedrone, kunye neecommandoo ezizodwa ezihlasela umhlaba jikelele. Uluhlu olufutshane lomlo wangoku lubandakanya umlo wase-US e-Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, nase-Somalia; iimfazwe zamakhaya eNigeria, eMaghreb, eLibya naseSouth Sudan; kunye nemfazwe yaseMexico yeziyobisi. UPapa Francis wathi ngayo yonke le nto, “Nanamhlanje, emva kwentsilelo yesibini yesibini yemfazwe yehlabathi, mhlawumbi omnye angathetha ngemfazwe yesithathu, enye yalwa ngesiqwengana, nolwaphulo-mthetho, ukubulawa kwabantu, kunye nentshabalalo.”
Kwi-1954, uSuku lwe-Armistice lwathatyathwa nguMhla woLutsha lweeVeterans, kwaye ngoko umkhosi wethu woxolo woxolo kunye nokuphela kwemfazwe yaba ngumbuthano "wokuxhasa imikhosi," usuku lwamazwe noluntu, kunye nesigqeba sokuqashwa kwabasemagunyeni. Akuyena wonke umntu owayevuya. I-novelist uKurt Vonnegut, iMfazwe yehlabathi yeMfazwe II kunye ne-POW, kamva wabhala, "Usuku lwe-Armistice luye lwaba nguMkhosi weeMantshi. Usuku lwe-Armistice lwangcwele. Usuku lwabaVeterli alukho. Ngoko ndiza kuphosa i-Veterans 'Day phezu kwamaphepha. Usuku lwe-Armistice ndiya kuqhubeka. Andifuni ukulahla izinto ezingcwele. "
Abagxeki ababini beMfazwe Yehlabathi I kuza engqondweni. UMongameli wamaMontana waseMontana uJeannette Rankin wathi, "Awuyi kuphinda unqobe imfazwe kunokuba unqobe inyikima," kwaye kwisitatimende sakhe kwiNkundla yakhe yeMartial ku1918, uMax Plowman wathi: "Ndiyichitha umyalelo wam ngenxa yokuba andikholelwa ukuba imfazwe iya kuphelisa imfazwe. Imfazwe yinkinga, kwaye ingxaki ayikwazi ukuvelisa umyalelo. Ukwenza okubi oko kulungileyo kukuza kubonakala bubuwula. "
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UJohn LaForge, odibeneyo PeaceVoice, ngu-Co-director of Nukewatch, uxolo kunye neqela lobulungisa bezemvelo eWisconsin, kwaye ungumhleli-mhleli kunye no-Arianne Peterson weNyukliya Heartland, ehlaziyiweyo: Isikhokelo se-450 i-Missiles ase-United States.
