Hi Sondra.  About modern warfare...
-> I would like us to learn *something*.  Frankly, I'm not big on
-> getting blown off the planet.
Once we decided to fight over ideology, then we began to think we had to
fight to the last person.  We think this way today because we've been
told to think this way and we may have trouble imagining an alternative.
But we could solve disputes with ritual warfare if we could only
conceive of it as a credible alternative.
Now there are more and deadlier weapons than ever and arms sales are a
significant part of the world economy.  According to the London Sunday
Times, Princess Di narrated a little TV special in England about the
millions of landmines around the world.
Di, of course, thought they were a Bad Thing. The patronizing voice-over
said that the argument was too sophisticated for her to understand.
What's so sophisticated about greed?
I think that every culture has engaged in some form of warfare. It's my
impression that native Indian warfare was the restricted ('primitive')
kind.
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