Not very satisfying food for thought
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Wow, this is like saying since rain clouds produce rain, anybody who gets rained upon gets wet! Food for thought.
Sure, you might make millions, but there's the non-trivial chance you'll hang from a lamppost or wind up waiting tables in Istanbul.
Regards,
Not, I think, very nutritious food for thought. Here’s a different thought: People with their hands in each other’s pockets are not going to take them out to shoot and kill each other. The developed nations are now too interconnected economically to start wars. Plus, do you really think bankers and politicians want people to die in war so they can enrich themselves? How low is your opinion of these people? This is like the theory that there’s a cure for cancer but medical science is hiding it because there’s SO much money to be made treating cancer. No.
Cliches and received wisdom. Previously digested food for thought.
Simplistic. And probably a little too America-centric.
Not really.
It is the same pap I have been hearing for the past 40 years and it was old and hoary then.
Such an optimist.
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:
#35 War is good for business.
#36 Peace is good for business.
It’s the same kind of stuff the Occupy Wall Street crowd would’ve railed against. The party of war, blame America first, merchants of death, oil for blood, etc.
It’s not that anybody needs it, but it is inevitable.
I believe that it is more due to the fact that humans as biological organism, are ‘governed’ by the fractal nature of the logistic growth equation.
Just as stock markets may be described by fractal algorithms (and even possibly predicted - if you are professor James Simon); human activity is as well.
We are forever destined to repeat the economic cycles as well as the cycle of warfare and disease. It has always happened this way and possibly always will.
What I would suggest we change is the caste of the casualties. Usually, our wise and fearless leaders engage in the chess game of global politics and our hapless children are sent off to war to kill the children of our wise leader’s enemies. We have never really had a problem with the average citizen.
A far better idea for future wars would be to make sure that the first casualties of any conflict would be the children of leaders. They are the ones who vote for and have caused every war, and so their sons and daughters should be immediately drafter for any conflict they start. The draft should begin only after all of the children, nieces and nephews of our Presidents, Congressmen and Senators have been killed in mortal battle.
The first targets of our armies should be the leaders and their families. Not more hapless child soldiers of the voiceless masses.
drafter = drafted
:)