The first lesson that l have learned

The pope, the supreme pastor of the Roman Catholic Church and spiritual leader of about one billion people, called for finding solutions that preserve "the good and peace in regions of the planet troubled from conflict, in which includes Darfur and Somalia, "the martyrized Middle East", the Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon, "and finally Tibet".
The papal infallibility expressed by Vatican Council I is just about religious doctrine in the strict sense and not about life as we live.
Indeed, the pope was wrong.
He forgot in his appeal the Caucasus, Haiti, Yemen, the Western Sahara, the delta of the Niger, Nepal, Mindanao and all the others and more than 70 places in the world where people kill other people for the right to govern.
Or maybe it wasn’t the pope who was wrong, maybe it was the newspapers and television which remind us the things of the world only when we are closely involved. But are we maybe not all involved in all of world conflicts?
No?
Who sells anti-personnel mines to Morocco for keeping the Saharawis away from deposits of phosphates?
Who supported and supports the Philippine government in attempts to cultural assimilation of Mindanao?
Who benefits from the wide Nigerian resources leaving only crumbs, resulting in the extreme poverty of the local population?
Who provides politic and military coverage to semi-dictatorial kingdoms and emerites of the Middle East?
Who goes to conclude billionaires trade agreements with governments which ignore fundamental human rights?
Whoever invents diminishing synonyms of the word "war" to go and destroy and then rebuild?

Education for a culture of peace, lesson one: we are all responsible, through our choices and our consumption, of all that takes place in a globalised world.
All means each of us!

Bruno Picozzi (in translation)