November 28, 2006
MO
“Unilateral” and “in-your-face” have more or less been our international relations MO for the past six years. So why not, as a gesture of peace, unilaterally hand over all our considerable stock pile of armament and all other deadly hardware to the UN for safekeeping and eventual disposal? And then why not invite everybody else to the party to do likewise?
I realize this would cause widespread and severe withdrawal pains. It might well put the NRA out of bidness, or maybe it could open a chain of skeet ranges for the gun-deprived and dithering old quail hunters. And then, there could always be Shooters Anonymous. “We admitted that we were powerless over blowing up stuff… ”
We could almost instantly simplify the military-industrial complex. Those munitions guys have been on welfare long enough, so we could put them on unemployment comp until they can find a more respectable line of work. When we get out from under paying for all those bombs, we could pay back China and Japan and erase the national debt overnight. We could have instant universal health care, even for the Third World. There would be daily TV reports on how many lives were saved. And just think what banging all those AK47s into plowshares could do for the family farms?
And then for heaven’s sake, we could stop having to go barefoot at the airport, and of all things, we might even find a way to raise the minimum wage.