re: #138 Decatur Deb

That problem started with the atl-atl vs hide shield weapons race. There is no forseeable end to it, and the international tools supposed to contain it, like the UN, are growing weaker instead of stronger. In the end we blackmail ourselves. We can go the Quaker-Amish route, but that really requires a Ghandian opposition.

Yet part of the reason those tools grow weaker is because of stunts like Bush’s of walking away from the ABM Treaty, overturning decades of mutual respect and trust. It’s hard to convince other leaders that we’re sincere about desiring peace when we’re busy building higher walls and bigger guns.