re: #156 GeneJockey

Even in cases like the Civil War, you don’t find the descendants of the losers saying, “Christ! Great Grandad fought for THAT? So that rich white folks could enslave black folks and steal their labor? What a stupid idea!!”

No, they fly the damned Stars and Bars, and lie that it wasn’t about slavery, and call it the War of Northern Aggression, more than half seriously.

I think it’s insane that it had to be fought at all. I think it’s insane that one human things they have the right to own another human.

I know it’s a pollyanna way to think, yet if we spent 1/10 of the money we spend on war on education —silly me, I think it might actually work. We would have a more peaceful, less greedy world in which individuals would be less likely to objectify other human beings.

WE have every thing we need to ensure that EACH child learns to read at a functional level, everything but the will. We are wasting the best resource we have for peace.

Please remember I’m working from the definition of Peace: Pacem in Terris . It’s not unicorns and lollipops.