The military has become part and parcel of life in our crisis-ridden world. Can we live without massive military investment?
From The Guardian: Time for a real review of defence spending
From the Zimbabwe Star: China rattled by Indian weapons buildup
From the Atlantic.Com: Military Resistance at the RNC “Footage of Iraq Veterans Against the War doing street theater in Denver during the Democratic National Convention”
“But wait, Alex. There’s so many bad people in the world. How can we defend ourselves without a strong military?”
Try this on for size: National Security Through Civilian-based Defense
Today’s Spiritual Quote:
“If a man slays another man, we brand him as a murderer and criminal and sentence him to capital punishment, but if he kills one hundred thousand men, he is a military genius, a great celebrity, a Napoleon idolized by his nation. If a man steals one dollar, he is called a thief and put into prison; if he rapes and pillages an innocent country by military invasion, he is crowned a hero. How ignorant is humankind! Ferocity does not belong to the kingdom of man. It is the province of man to confer life, not death. It behooves him to be the cause of human welfare, but inasmuch as he glories in the savagery of animalism, it is an evidence that divine civilization has not been established in human society.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 103
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