Why do governments kill?

What makes governments decide to invade other countries and kill people? Are governments not people too? Don’t they have families and kids that they love and adore? How can these same people give orders to invade other countries and subsequently kill their kids? We see today so much violence both in our streets and on the news channels. We see how the USA government can invade other countries (Afghanistan and Iraq to name a few recent ones), drop bombs indiscreetly on houses and buildings, killing many innocent people. We see how the Israeli government orders missile strikes on houses and buildings in Palestine, killing many innocent people. What happened to dialect and discussion? Don’t the people sitting on the opposite of the table have families and kids?

Are we not all humans here in this small planet trying to fight to survive and live in peaceful manner? Who are these few that want war and destruction? Is the “fight” for “democracy”, “freedom”, “peace” and “human rights” not just an illusion? We have seen how a government can create a war by either designing or allowing for 911 to happen to justify killing others. Must we keep on feeding this “industrial military complex” machine?

I look around me at my friends, collogues and every person I’ve met so far. I don’t see the desire in their thoughts and minds to destroy others. In fact most if not all are very considerate and kind to other people and they are from all walks of life and vary in race and religion hugely. So where does this desire from governments come from? Some governments impose the death penalty on their own people. Is this where it starts, if they can kill their “own”, then surely they may kill others in other countries?

Maybe we are not all the same humans on this planet. Maybe there is more than one type of human on this planet thinking differently. Maybe we are not in control of this planet. So many questions I know. It just frustrates me to see that governments are allowed to give killing orders indiscriminately and very few “humans” seems to question these motives. Sure, the mainstream media supports them and sure, the “polls” seems indicate that the “people” are behind their decisions (hope you notice my level of sarcasm here).

I wonder what this world would have looked like if our governments spent their budgets on healthcare, transport infrastructure, job creation etc instead of huge military budgets driving more wars and destruction. I wonder what will happen if we all as humans one day realize that we have a far larger and more dangerous enemy on this planet than that guy sitting in the cave with a headscarf on.