Can we become a species that requires war - neither for meaning nor for "population management" no more?

Maybe, but one of the first things overboard would have to be abstinence education. We would have to get behind research with a goal to make birth control foolproof, free and widely disseminated for ALL women who want to have reproductive choice.

If we allow other means for population control to come to the fore then, perhaps, war as a means for thinning the herd would have less imperative.

Or not. But it's hard to say without trying.

This breaking story is consuming most of Countdown tonight:

Third employee at State disciplined over accessing candidate’s records

BREAKING NEWS

NBC News

updated 10 minutes ago

Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.

The three people who had access to Obama's passport records were contract employees of the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News has learned. The unauthorized activity concerning Obama's passport information occurred in January.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/

What about those old WWII movies where the Japanese SCREW UP so bad. And then they "fall on their own sword", or I guess its called HARI-KARI. (Someone educate me).

But anyway, realizing the enormity of their failings, they commit suicide.

What's wrong with that?

That seems to me to be a sort of "instant therapy".....

I know it would make ME feel a lot better about things.

And you know what?

That's REALLY SAD that someone would drive you to this point of desperation and despair.

Glenn's Adam Smith quote reminded of the book by Chris Hedges (link on sig). He wrote thoughtfully about war with some anthropological, sociological, philosophical, and anecdotal observations that seem to naturally follow Adam Smith's.

What I took away from both A. Smith & C. Hedges is a feeling about the apparently genetically-transmitted human impulse toward war, that maybe it is a way that we, as a species, manage our population and conserve limited resources for the survival of the species. War will happen? Then, with the knowledge begat of introspection, is not our imperative to engage in war only when there is no alternative; and when states are not under direct attack only intervene via multilateral consensus?

Maybe then we could evolve, uniquely among species perhaps, participate with God in our becoming. Can we become a species that requires war - neither for meaning nor for "population management" no more?

Obama's passport file breached at State Department -

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/03/obama_demands_p.html

Just ask Dick Cheney. He doesn't give a crapola what all of you negative nancies think about Iraq.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=943

In the interview with ABC News, reporter Martha Raddatz questioned Cheney’s statement that "there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress" in Iraq:

"Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting," Raddatz said.

"So?" replied Cheney.

"You don’t care what the American people think?" Raddatz asked.

"No," Cheney replied.

Why not just laugh it up with the Hero?

I can understand the difficulty people face in coming to terms with the enormity of what has been done. On a personal level, it is difficult to admit when one has done something less than honorable, or downright dishonorable. Sometimes it takes years of therapy to get to a point of honesty about it. The same applies to groups, such as the MSM; it takes courage and dedication to face up to just what it is that has happened and, by and large, they will do anything to evade having to face that and their complicity, encouragement, and evasiveness.

Well, just checked out their website. Obviously suffering oxygen deprivation (either that or it's that good old "alien parasite life form attached to cerebral cortex" problem). Trumpeting poll results they found somewhere on Drudge, about McCain's huge lead. Then the guy says: "Game On!"......

NOTHING ABOUT VOLUNTEERING TO GO AND SERVE.

NOT ONE WORD ABOUT SACRIFICE.

Outside GG's blog, Salon posters can be very very dumb indeed. That's why I rarely go there.

That idiotic "what me worry?" look just never leaves the man's visage.

Alfred E. Bush?

http://tinyurl.com/25yebe

He has never, ever, had to face a single consequence in his entire life for anything he has ever done. That is where that smug, self-satisfied smirk comes from. Total unaccountability.

Immediately after noting multiple bannings our recently renamed incendiary device lets this one rip:

Also a lot of them are just plain dumb as rocks, and it's not a sin to be retarded, they can't help it,

and then wonders why people accuse him of laying out flamebait.

I can foresee a day when, as a result of our own example, the "Beneficent Ruler" of some other country invades America, a once great nation, because it's been taken over by a despot. "America's Dictator" has not been fairly elected to office, rather, he's either been appointed by legal fiat or has gained power by corruptly manipulating the election process. "America's Dictator" has perverted the justice system by appointing cronies and incompetents in the Department of Justice and stacked the courts with judges who claim to support the Constitution but who, in reality, decide cases on the basis of "Dear Leader's" dictates and pronouncements. "America's Dictator" has suspended the rights of Habeas Corpus, even putting citizens in prison without the right to counsel or the ability to refute the charges against them or even to see the evidence justifying their incarceration. "America's Dictator" tortures the innocent in the name of security, rules by fear and intimidation, and arrogantly dismisses the will of the people. "America's Dictator" has ruined the nation's economy causing widespread joblessness, hunger and homelessness. The citizens are despondent, there are riots in the streets, and local insurgents rob from their neighbors and pillage the countryside. In the name of "compassion," this "Beneficent Ruler" will invoke the name of preemptive war in order to quell the genocide, stop the chaos, and overthrow the tyrant. "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" (Hosea 8:7). We have, indeed, sown the wind. The whirlwind is coming; it is just a matter of time.