- the danger is greater than might be imagined, as much war support knows no limits -- a danger that grows with every day that the U.S. government works toward the deployment of more and smaller and "more usable" first-strike nuclear weapons; and
- key to building resistance to each particular war is educating young and old people to oppose the entire institution of war.
I recently spoke to a college class and asked them to name some justified wars. It absolutely made my day that for the first time in my experience nobody said "World War II." But they did say "the revolution" as if there had only ever been one, and "the civil war" as if these young people had had the good fortune to be born into the one country where both of the justifiable wars in world history had happened. This line of thinking is no different from imagining one's parents, by virtue of being one's parents, to have possessed and bestowed on you the one true religion.
When a Florida school district this past year announced that it would evict from its sporting events anyone who failed to properly honor the U.S. flag, it was engaging in a policy of holy excommunication, and it was doing as much or more for the support of coming wars as any forged documents that any future Karl Rove might commission.
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