Ok, Bobert. I'll send you a PM with the particulars about O'Hurley's to avoid hijacking the thread altoghether.

Back to the discussion...

The reason the government is willing to subsidize war and not peace is because a lot of people are making a lot of money on the making of war and they have a powerful lobby in Washington. The lobby for peace will never be able to come up with enough money to compete with these powerful interests.

Remember how things were in Washington just before 11 September? Everyone was focused on Gary Condit. The only thing that could shake them out of that profound stupidity was a catastrophe the magnitude of 11 September. You hear anything about Gary Condit since then?

I think it's going to take another catastrophe of much greater proportions to shake people out of the current military mindset. I also think there's an excellent chance that people will be provided with such a catastrophe.

Carol C: any "future environmental catastrophy" would likely be caused by the fravorite whipping boy of the liberals, don't you think? Some big multi-national corporation like Exxon Mobil or somebody like that? You could go after and try to kill them! :>)

Maybe you could do it for me, eh, DougR?

No. I don't think it's just one big multi-national corporation that is going to cause it. I think it's our whole way of life that's causing it. I think it's going to require a big change in the way things are done on all levels of society to fix the kind of problems I'm envisioning.