I love the way hawks, when cornered, just throw up the same feeble arguments. "Awwww", they say, "we'll just disassemble our defense capabilities. Would that make you commie peace-nics happy?"

Ahhhh, unless I missed something here, I don't hear anyone saying we need less defense. Problem is that too many folks confuse defense with offense. And too many folks think that all change must come from either blowing folks up or threatening to blow folks up. Hey, both are terrorist acts if you're on the wrong side of the blower up-er/ blower up-ee equation.

W@hat so wrong with a humanistic approach, that invilves the real hard work of including folks we might not agree with in forums that are meant to foster understanding. Nevermind... That's right, if we did that then there's a chance that the US might have to change the way it does things. No, but really, at some point in time with everyone armed to the teeth, things are gonna get out of hand and a lot of folks are going to get blown up. And they won't all be the folks that we disagree with...

Yeah, we collectively haven't even scratched the surface on an out-of-the-box push for selling peace. Well, heck, if war was good enough fir my daddy and his daddy then danged if it ain't good fir me. Hmmmmmmmm?

Insane.

Bobert