We should declare war then, and make it ferocious, but we should have an enemy who can be conquered without killing humans. War on oil wells, for example, or war on pollutants.

It isn't the same, I know--I mocked W for his stupid War on Terror expression and the abuses it spawned. Declaring war on a condition is illiterate and ineffective. But we should figure out how to do the equivalent, and inject it with just as much passion. War on Space has a nice ring to it. War on Inhumanity. War on Stupidity...