This Is Why We Fight, Lovely Rita

[Michael Bailey]

Michael Bailey wrote:
> boilerplate stuff - but needs to be said
>

I just had this flash: maybe it didn't...

but, shucks, trying to shape a good pacifist sound bite is usually an
attractive challenge though.

here's a couple more...

If you had a government that had a policy of being so nice that nobody
would attack it, that would inspire emulation (especially if the
former rampant superpower espoused it)

if the darn Soviet Union wouldn't have tried to annex Afghanistan they
could have spent that effort differently and quite possibly solved
their internal problems and detente would have been for real

if the darn US hadn't toppled all the secular democracies a-borning
back in the 20th century, it's a good bet that most of us would be a
lot happier today

if darn BP didn't have the ability to involve governments in its
machinations, and if Kennedy had ducked down on 11/22/63 to pull up
his socks or take a nip from a flask just as a bullet whizzed by
overhead...

if there was a commitment to peacemaking with a military-size budget
behind it, or even a homeland-security budget, wherein people could
have lucrative careers and get on the news and taken seriously by
talking heads...

if there was any justice, somebody would be empowered and paid good
money to pee on Dick Cheney (but we wouldn't pay to kill him 1st)!