The Einstein-Russell Manifesto

Is it possible to put the genie back in the bottle? I fear not. The genie is out and we are hanging onto the threads at the edge of its flying carpet.

In a way, nuclear bombs probably prevented a big war between the west and the Soviet bloc. Nowadays, with little countries (and maybe terrorists) it is uncertain how effective MAD (mutual assured distruction) is likely to be in the future.

In this world and as I approach my own final stretch, having witnessed it as a fourteen year old boy on December 7th 1941, there are a multitude of factors that I see confront humanity. Firstly the deep divisions created by immature religions. I refer here to the Muslim faith. When I say immature it is not in any sense :derogatory. It is in the sense that religious thought , manners and ethics in say other Christian Faiths , Budhism, Hindhi or Jewish faiths all have eradicated from their teachings the barren hatred that the "teachers and thinkers " of Muslim faith have allowed an otherwise acceptable religious thought to foster onto the world.

As an example simply compare the Prime Minister of Iran to say the Ex Prime Minister Tony Blair. The underlying hatred that the first person is able to : harbour, conceal and allow all of us to imagine is a frightening aspect of the degradation of thought in so called inspired religious leaders of the human race. In 1941 there was : Hitler. Compare him to Iran 's or North Korean leaders now. Imagine the vastly increased capacity of destruction that the last two have or can have at their disposal ?

It is said that an intellectual such as Einstein comes into being only once in a thousand years. Yet the motivation of Einstein in drafting the atomic bomb was as he said it to President F .Roosevelt "to protect the human race against Hitler's determination to have a super bomb with which it could eradicate USA and its allies ". Yet today when everyone knows that Irans has but one aim in life : to destroy USA and its allies Israel , I ask all of you " try to find a quorum of leaders in the world who would accept that the same USA pre-empt that very disaster " ?

That sad assessment is made starker when one considers that whatever faults President Bush may have , how many Americans stand firm behind him in his determination to fend off the inroads of militant terrorism ? Peacefull resolutions to our conflicts ? Should we go back to having the Neville Chamberlain of this world solve our problems? Where is the United Nations at present in : Irak , in Iran or even in Pakistan ? Does the UN seek out the terrorists that blow up trains in Spain,UK ? Along the greatly enhanced dangers of destruction facing the world, there is already a total weakening of the free world's resolves. Simply judge the change between how the USA treated its President after 7/11 and how it treats him now !

Whose moral grounds is invaded when religious leaders can claim the right to execute an author whoever and wherever he may be because he has dared to question the Muslim Prophet ?

Where is the sanity ? It is not renouncing war. The issue may well be eliminate religious teachers that can not accept being peacefull human beings and are incapable of renouncing deep rooted hatred. Yes, may be the Falkland Islands or such other modern St Helena is to be established for their forced exile. It may at least render their dissemination of hatred more difficult and give the peace the world aspires to have.