As soon as the clock struck twelve on the eve of January 2001, the sky filled with gleaming fireworks. It was the start of the 21st century, a new millennia, and the human civilization was celebrating the peak of its prosperity, which was largely brought upon by technological marvels of the past two centuries. Yet just nine months later, a terrorist attack would mark the beginning of a new chapter in humanity’s bloody history. After the attack, militaries of the most supposedly powerful nations would mobilize to quell what they saw as a threat to world peace. Within months, a well off nation became, socially and economically, almost entirely crippled, and another plunged back into civil war. Millions, in the aftermath of the September 11 attack, were made to suffer at the hands of a few miscreants’ actions and at the words of even fewer politicians. Wars have been an integral, unavoidable aspect of human societies since their existence. Regardless of all the advancements humans have made thus far, world peace seems like a distant dream. Our technological breakthroughs have helped us progress materially, but failed to foster what we perhaps need most: moral ethics. No other living beings treat one of their own as brutally as humans do. Although science propels the world today, and has no formula for peace, and was never meant to provide a moral upbringing. It can be used for progress, but it can be used just as much for destruction. The Japanese and Germans, with all their technological superiority, chose a path of annihilation. One can argue, I suppose, that science made them too arrogant. Nevertheless, the question remains: why do wars exist today when most of us, if not all, are well aware that all the resources wasted on warfare could be diverted somewhere more productive? Appropriating military expenditures into eliminating poverty & illiteracy, for example, would be a much more profitable venture. Do the antagonists not under