The Wars We Don't Fight

We all fight war.

The current standard American behavior when it comes to transportation significantly damages the national aggregate behavior when it comes to government spending and national security. The current widespread self-reliance and over extended need for gasoline for personal vehicles logically explains our former macro-economic need for ill-advised and sloppily lead military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya.

            Terrorists didn’t do this. Foreign terrorists just fought back (evil, yes; unjust, of course.) The terrorists however did not do this; we do this. Cadillac Escalades do this. Two-seaters do this. By refusing to take the bus; we do this.

            If individual behavior in the United States called for a higher demand on education, networking, new technologies and ways of globally communicating, we would no longer have the need to fight these occupational brute force wars of the 20^th century.

President Barack Obama and American automakers (as well as congress) need to be reminded consistently that continuing these out of date wars of the past will cause us to lose the anti-wars of the future. These wars are being fought on the internet, in space, and in non-hierarchical global commerce. Both in Asia & Europe these anti-wars are being fought and won. Information and innovation becomes the battlefield for the wars of the future.

            Why are these the wars we don’t fight?

By Jay Thomas, Tupper Lake, MI