War seems incredibly lazy to me. I know it involves lots of complicated equations and tactics, but you know what’s harder than blowing people up? Understanding them. What if the entire military had a sea change in strategy, and went from an aggressive machine hell-bent on terror and death, to a enormous agency of global peacekeepers. I mean peacekeepers in the literal sense, not the marketing bullshit way they use it now to make us feel better about killing children with US bombs.

What if the Army was the ground troops and we only deployed them in situations where injustice was clear. And their goal was not to kill the enemy, but to support the people that are being repressed or killed.

I don’t think it’s possible right now to dismantle the military, as some left-wing pundits have suggested. But I do think it’s possible, with the right people in charge, to incrementally shift the strategy of our standing militia to one that more aligns with a common good. 

First step may be getting blood money out of congress, by not incentivizing the production of weapons of mass destruction by US industrial military companies.