To War!

Stop declaring 'war' on everything. Start employing solutions and safe guards. We have 'declared war' on too many non-physical entities for decades. War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Guns, War on Terrorism - and yet, there are still drugs, there is still poverty, there are still guns, and there is still terrorism; which suggests one inevitability: there will continue to be all of these intangibles until policies change, until mentality changes. You can't fight poverty, you can provide care and shelter against it. You can't fight drugs. They are grown, they are distributed - and they have been for centuries. You establish the reasons someone would even need drugs to begin with - and then you prevent that. You can't fight terrorism, you can quell its supplies, its reach and most importantly, its recruits with a message of respect, inclusion (or exclusion) and peaceful expression.

But you can't fight these things with a declaration. Terrorism is an ideal created by dedicated loyalists to a cause - no matter how skewed. You want to eliminate them - or any of these decade long 'wars'? Eliminate the cause. Eliminate the need. Eliminate the fear.

If we remain dedicated to the concept that with each new challenge, a forceful response is required then, by all means, lets go to 'war' on with anything against Us to sell Our ideal, Our advertisements, and a Our catch-line to march to. Its easier to promote intolerance than actually build a system to prevent it.

HV