Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Kill the Monster
The extended Quaker campaign to protect American youth from being shanghaied by the military is good as far as it goes, but the whole arms industry needs to be taken on frontally as the evil it is if we're ever going to kill the monster. Of course, just talking to kids about options to becoming mercenaries in exchange for a two-bit college education will probably land the Friends activists on Obama's enemies list. Still, if we're serious about preventing suicides by returning veterans, the only way to head it off is to shame Americans into renouncing militarism from top to bottom.
