The USA has the largest military ever fielded ever. More than several of the past empires together and the most religious among us wants it even larger. Land, sea, air, under water and near Earth orbital weapons. We have it all. No pounding weapons into anything else. A tremendous waste of our resources on imperial tools of domination and destruction of others.
If you take the toy guns away from kids, they will still point sticks at each other and go “bang, bang!” Boy children, especially, have played hunting and war games about as long as we have been a sentient species. Of course, in the old days, their ability to throw a rock to scare birds from the field, or shoot an arrow or a gun to kill a rabbit, probably helped ensure that their family could eat…
Lyons Group, Inc. about 7 years ago
What a certain hermit nation still hasn’t learn. It will soon.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 7 years ago
The USA has the largest military ever fielded ever. More than several of the past empires together and the most religious among us wants it even larger. Land, sea, air, under water and near Earth orbital weapons. We have it all. No pounding weapons into anything else. A tremendous waste of our resources on imperial tools of domination and destruction of others.
JPuzzleWhiz about 7 years ago
“Don’t stop after beating the swords into ploughshares, don’t stop! Go on beating and make musical instruments out of them.
“Whoever wants to make war again will have to turn them into ploughshares first.”
cruiserd about 7 years ago
I fear for our country.
skyriderwest about 7 years ago
Don’t forget Joel 3:10: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Yakety Sax about 7 years ago
We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. George Washington
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
roberta.forbes.pyle about 7 years ago
If you take the toy guns away from kids, they will still point sticks at each other and go “bang, bang!” Boy children, especially, have played hunting and war games about as long as we have been a sentient species. Of course, in the old days, their ability to throw a rock to scare birds from the field, or shoot an arrow or a gun to kill a rabbit, probably helped ensure that their family could eat…
i_am_the_jam about 7 years ago
Odd, Dean didn’t seem like a religious person. I wonder how he managed to come across that verse…
Decepticomic almost 3 years ago
rerun