More Early Morning Musing

I was thinking of war the other day. Why? Oh, I don't know…probably because the news doesn't cover it anymore. No, it didn't go away, it just can't compete with John and Sarah. And I thought about the Vietnam War and how important it was for some people that we 'win' that war. Which we didn't. And yet the sky didn't fall as predicted and today we can go to those same battlegrounds as tourists. Vietnam is a preferred trading partner with us. So why did we do it? And why do we continue to wage war today? It's because we've never tried waging peace. We simply don't know any better. And we don't seem to be getting any smarter.

We used to have a War Department; until someone got smart and decided to rename it the Defense Department. That's a good politically correct name, though it's never involved in defense, and offense is always its mission. But what if we had a new department; the Peace Department? Imagine a Secretary of Peace. What if we spent billions on peace? I don't know, we've never tried. Never.