We cannot even engage in entertainment without supporting companies that profit from war: Indigo Films, Hollywood, Lucas Films Inc., Atari, Sony, Hasbro and a slew of computer action-war games by a variety of companies via DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) subcontracts. Of course, this causes an immense profit for such toy stores as Toys-R-Us and Wal-Mart.

To be quite honest, we can't even earn a college degree without running into the big players. Cal Tech, University of California and USC along with Johns Hopkins University, Harvard and Duke are all well-known for their war work. But then there are such schools as Georgia Tech, Ohio State University, Auburn, University of Michigan, Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon--even Catholic University. Two of my schools, Hopkins and the University of Kansas, are heavily indebted to the making of war.

This is a long and tedious list, mostly of everyday entities we wouldn't consider as making war. But there it is. Our American way of life. If WMD were really used to end the continual maiming and raping and slaughter, the American economy would collapse. Thus, Bush et al. will never use these fear-mongering machines because not only are Bush et al. bought and sold by the biggest corporations, these politicians make money from that same war machinery. To be a peacenik politician is to engage in a conflict of interests.

So. . .they may make great hordes of WMD that can destroy the world many times over but they won't ever use them. It's all bravado and profit. And therefore they are cowards. Self-interested, but cowards. Talk, talk, talk. Jabber, jabber, jabber. But walk, walk, walk? Not on your life, fella.

I say we should push them to it--use the damn weapons to end war. . .or make way for people who will end war. This is the best thing the anti-war folk could do, for they will thus expose the underside of the sickness, they will expose the hypocrisy. Only by pushing for the immediate use of WMD to end all war, to get rid of our enemies--which are everywhere, as with all witch hunts--will they actually end war. The foolish hawks would get behind such a movement without thinking--their favorite activity, not thinking--because they are avid witch hunters. And then the politicos and Satanic military minds would have to put up or. . .

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Jimsecor is a freelance writer who has travelled extensively overseas, especially Japan and China. He has published in all genre and produced several plays over the years and has taught theatre, writing and literature.

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