The only business enterprise holding its bottom line in this current economic global infection is the manufacture and sale of weapons.
We really gotta ask ourselves: if there were no firearms or combustible creations available, could the human race continue to perpetuate aggression and conflict? A knife or club requires proximity, possibly a face-to-face encounter. It’s clumsy, corporeal and immediately recognizable as cruel.
So please, Secretary Rice, tell the truth: the only effort that seems to be “doable and sustainable” is war.