Plowshares into Swords?

Plowshares into Swords?

Every time trouble breaks out in these parts, and a struggle begins, you immediately have the emergence of two groups. A group that chooses to stay and fight and one that chooses to leave.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Lupembe--How-presidents-Lule--Binaisa-were-juggled/-/689844/2318542/-/4lmu90/-/index.html the article by Henry Lubega has some interesting similarities to this very idea. The difference though, is that these are being played out in a different context. 

Even if some could argue that there is no overt push towards and struggle similar to that of the eighties, certain challenges in the economy have forced many to leave and the harder core to stay. 

These differences have resulted in an interesting relationship between those who by circumstance have decided to work in foreign countries while supporting relatives and friends back home. The tensions that have arisen on the return of the former are still as palpable as those that were mentioned in the article by Lubega. 

There are some ways in which Post World War I and II, nations have been forced more that ever to devise other means by which to annihilate each other and even if the effects are often less gruesome they are still as effective and damaging if not more. In a sense, most of our modern day battles have become economic. The fallout from these battles has been an increase in poetry and a rise in real estate for ghettos and shanty towns. 

So the need to better circumstances has driven us abroad in search of better pastures. While many are unwilling to turn their plowshares into swords, they have none the less held on to these tools in preparation for a change of circumstance.