Stop calling it ‘defense’
Mar 1st, 2010 | By Nate | Category: Columns, From the Archives, OpinionsWould we pay for an offense budget? Probably not. Will people keep signing up and heading off as long as we call it defense? Most definitely.
Would we pay for an offense budget? Probably not. Will people keep signing up and heading off as long as we call it defense? Most definitely.
By Evan Pennington Rebels kidnapped the group of children who were innocently playing soccer, blindfolded them, and cut a deep gash in their wrists, rubbing a mixture of gunpowder and cocaine into the wound to induce hysteria. Then, rebel soldiers handed the still-blindfolded five-year-old Michel Chikwanine an AK-47 assault rifle and ordered him to fire. [...]
In a cooperative spirit of altruism, where we analyze the problems we are each facing, we can be real peace builders by addressing the causes of conflict rather than the symptoms of injustice.