Chad Irby wrote:


Hell, I've known adult humans - I'm not calling them "grown-ups" - who
would look you straight in the eye and tell you, seriously, that the
United States doesn't need a military, period.

That'd be funny if it didn't reveal how little some people know
about human nature. As good as it might sound if we all were to
stick flowers in our hair and feed each other grapes while we
lolled around on some sunny warm beach in the tropics it wouldn't
be long till someone took offense at someone for popping a
slightly over-ripe grape in his mouth, snarled at her, was
snarled at in turn by some tough who had a letch for her, etc etc
etc..

The human animal has a competitive streak that cannot be
suppressed without making us inhuman, therefore we'll always need
armed forces, always. We need that competition, without it we
aren't human.
--

-Gord.