Operation Best of All Possible Solutions as This is Best of All Possible Worlds

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when the seventeent-century rationalist philosopher Gottifried Wilhelm Leibinz famously said ,”This is the best of all possible worlds ,” he opend himself to unmerciful ridicule.It all began in the following century with Candide, Voltaire’s very funny novel of good-natured young man (Candide) and his philosophicl mentor, Dr. Panglos.

In his journeys, young Candide encounters floggings, unjust executions, epidemics, and an earthquake patterned after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, which had leveled the city. Nothing, however, can shake Dr. Pangloss’s insistence that “Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.” When Candide sets out to save Jacques, a Dutch Anabaptist, from drowning, Pangloss stops him by proving that the Bay of Lisbon had been “formed expressly for the Anabaptist to drown in.”

Two centuries later, Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 musical, Candide, added to the joke. The show’s best-known song, “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” has Pangloss and the cast sing Richard Wilbur’s lyrics praising war as a blessing in disguise, because it unites us all—as victims.


Leibniz got to his idea that this is the best of all possible worlds by arguing by reason alone that:

1. There would be no world at all if God had not chosen to create a world.

2. The “principle of sufficient reason” says that when there is more than one alternative, there must be an explanation for why one is the case rather than another.

3. In the case of God’s choosing a particular world to create, the explanation must necessarily be found in the attributes of God himself, since there was nothing else around at the time.

4. Because God is both all-powerful and morally perfect, he must have created the best possible world. If you think about it, under the circumstances it was the only possible world. Being all-powerful and morally perfect, God could not have created a world that wasn’t the best.

Voltaire, Bernstein et al, and Southern and Hoffenberg all satirize what they take to be Leibniz’s meaning: “Everything is hunky-dory.” But Leibniz didn’t think there was no evil in the world. He merely thought that for God to have created the world in any other way would have resulted in even more evil.


Fortunately, we have a couple of jokes that actually do shed light on Leibniz’s philosophy.

An optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that this is so.

The joke implies that the optimist approves of the idea that this is the best of all possible worlds, while the pessimist does not. From Leibniz’s rationalist perspective, the world simply is what it is; the joke clarifies the obvious truth that optimism and pessimism are personal attitudes that have nothing to do with Leibniz’s neutral, rational description of the world.

The optimist says, “The glass is half full.”

The pessimist says, “The glass is half empty.”

The rationalist says, “This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”

That makes it clear as glass.


After each terrorist incident in Pakistan, pessimist argue that it is failure of military, state agencies , Government policies etc.

In-fact they fail to notice sacrifices, resolve and commitment of military, state agencies and Nation. I don’t think there is no evil in Pakistan. Any Solution other than operation Zarb e Azab would have resulted into even more evil. The glass is not half empty, it is half full.

There are many challenges for Pakistan such as TTP leadership operating from safe Heavens inside Afghanistan, porous border, identification and blockade of TTP funding. Being Commander in Chief of the best military, I think Gen Raheel Sharief will go for best of all possible solution.