Impossible ideal

The impossible ideal In the world there are many conflicts. The ambition is usually to win. We want to win. Our ideals should win. But this is not very good. It is the formula for constant problems. The only good ideal is the impossible one. It is the ambition, not for us to win but for you and us to create a world where all of us can prosper peacefully. This would mean that every conflict must end in relaxed friendship. This is obviously impossible. For example, the prisoners remaining at Guantanamo Bay should arrange a Christmas party for the guards and their children, complete with gifts and songs and dance around the Christmas tree. Another example would be Iraq. When will all the local conflicts be changed into harmony and eager ambition to help all other clans? As long as the self evident ambition is to win, it is also an ideal to punish and destroy the enemy. This is a most destructive ambition. The only good ambition must be to help the enemy to create a working society. This is the opposite of destruction. Some of the present conflicts are desperate. They can hardly be understood as invitation to peace. But they must be. The goal must be harmony without exception. An impossible goal, but the only possible.