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3rd thread

April 16 198

-Common hall, Block E, UPA-

It was official. These people are insane. Terrifyingly so. Heero realized after he sat through the whole meeting.

It was too much to take. All of them were just crazy, playing politics like it was a child's game. Do they actually realize to what extends their every word, every decision would affect the world? Politicians have lots of experiences; they have started from the very bottom and worked their way up. They understood the workings of the government and the workings of the people. These children thinking that they could change the world for the better just like that, it was just damn naive. Damn hilarious too.

Relena was so different from these children. She knew her stand. She had her ideals. She knew she symbolizes hope. She used that to influence people. But she also knew she had no experience, at least not enough experiences to be making decisions for the people. She seek advice, she sought people's agreement before implementing her decisions. She was not stupid. Not like those kids. Acting all self-righteous. It was almost painful to watch.

Walking back to his dorm, the only thing he could not grasp was the fact that two of his former comrades were in this as well. Were they insane? Brainwashed? Delusional? All of the above?

"We have heard that the Post-War Recovery Movement, PWRM, has divided their group into two main factions due to internal conflicts, as a result, the Preventers were heavily affected. Their financial support was almost halved. Yet, the reason for the conflict was unknown." Isaac paused, looking at all the people present. Then, at Dorothy.

Dorothy stood up to pick up where he left. "Of course, we have analyzed these facts and came up with a few reasons of their conflict."

Isaac, at this point went back to his seat.

"One being, the length of stand of this movement. Five years. It is too short. Too short to pull out any long-term plan that could recover the loss of properties, resources and manpower. Not to mention to recover the psychological damage of the people." She paced about in the room.

"The second reason being," She looked straight at Heero. "The lack of support from the Foreign Affairs Minister, Relena Darlian."

Heero returned her glare, remaining expressionless.

"She had played a critical role in the war, many look up to her because of it. Her lack of enthusiasm for the PWRM was, to the movement, their blind spot."

She stopped at her seat, still standing.

"It widened the gap between the people and the movement. It caused misunderstanding between the people and the government. More so, between governments of the earth and colonies."

Relena was not entirely against the movement. But she was not one of the many who could actually agree with the course of actions the movement was about to take. They were planning to use drastic measures in which as a pacifist would have to disagree. Wiping out the existing and still opposing soldiers seems too drastic a measure. Making it as though they sounded like the weapons they were getting rid of was even harder to bear.

Heero had thought so too. In doing such things, they were going against everything they were fighting for. Worse, the majority of the people opposing the present government alliance were colonists. As good as a solution it was, it would only have a temporary effect. The harm, however, would be permanent. In later years, people would bring up this measure with bitterness, scorning discord between the earthians and the colonists.

Not much so as the physical damage than the emotional ones. Like what Quatre said before one of their many battles:

'Death is only physical damage to the dead. However, it is an emotional damage to those still living.'

The physical damage will come back to the ones who inflicted them in the first place. And the vicious cycle would continue.

"It was fortunate those in power had not agreed to Minister Darlian's wish to disband the committees of PWRM and to leave that power into the sole hands of the Preventers. The Preventers, although, weakened due to the formation of the movement, had not achieve much to help the world recover from war." Dorothy sat down with that. Trowa stood up from his seat and look at everyone at the table. He reshuffled the papers at his hands, reading the correct one out.

"For they had neglected the very first factor in which that would contribute to another war."

The word 'war' sent shivers down Heero's spine. Especially having it come from a former comrade.

"The most important of them all," he paused, taking a deep breath.

"A soldier's resentment."

These words coming from Trowa's mouth chilled Heero to the bone. Relena's biggest worry was voiced out.

This was the vicious cycle.