[lbo-talk] Michael Perelman's Peace Plan For Iraq

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 21:10:33 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:


> The only problem of course is that, having achieved the utopian dream of
> making war impossible, it would be a bit harder to justify a gargantuan war
> machine. But the answer there is to simply rename the army navy and
> air-force. They would become the Land Peace Corps, the Air Peace Corps and
> the Water Peace Corps.

The United States has already taken the first steps along this path, renaming its Department of War the National Military Establishment (NME) in 1947, then, perhaps after noticing the acronym, the Department of Defense in 1949.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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