War and Peace

Nothing but stray thoughts this morning. What if we had a new cabinet position; Secretary of Peace. This whole War thing hasn’t been working all that well…in fact; it hasn’t worked well for over 60 years now.

In that same vein; suppose we assume that the whole world is a corporation and one division within that corporation is the War division. Can you imagine their profit and loss statement? Can’t you just see their PowerPoint presentations as they try to justify their existence?

Wasn’t there a song once; Give Peace a Chance? Have we ever done that? No? Well, color me naïve!

And then I read about the slight delay in the ‘Virtual Fence’ that is being built to secure our borders. “The $20 million project of sensor towers and advanced mobile communications was supposed to be completed in mid-2007 but had been delayed by software problems.” Hmm? Software problems? Well, that’s something that can be fixed by simply throwing some more money at the problem. And we all know how well government computer programs work. Just give them some time. (Can you say ‘Star Wars’?)

It’s simply amazing that we give such people power over our lives. These are people I wouldn’t want to spend 5 minutes with because I would be afraid of losing my intelligence, just by being in their vicinity. Ack! What’s that sucking sound?