A Peaceful Solution

The concept that public education is the great equalizer in this country is in jeopardy. There is a lot that needs to be done, but funding is just part of the solution.

Our military-industrial-complex has become very proficient at recruiting and training our youth to become economic cannon fodder for it’s preemptive, imperialistic and avarice wars.

President Dwight Eisenhower said: “This world must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

We support three military academies, which requires Congress to recommend some of our brightest young people to become proficient at delivering death and destruction upon those that our corporate elite have determined to be our enemies.

John Edwards has suggested a National Teaching Academy, where the most talented teachers would be given a state-of-the-art education. Upon graduation, these brave, patriotic and talented teachers would be assigned to education SWAT teams with the money and expertise to help the schools that are struggling.

We must start developing the intelligence, creative thinking and comprehension skills of our young people, if America is ever going to realize peace and prosperity again.

We must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, because as the last line of Dalton Trumbo’s “Johnny Got His Gun” warns: “You plan the wars you masters of men and point the way and we will point the gun.”