conversation with a right-leaning friend

what follows took place in my head (where 99.8% of my conversations happen) as i listened to my friend expound a newly found faith in our war machine. such was the pining for wwII that i thought--repeatedly--read zinn. his autobiography would be a good starting point.

Everyone was horrified by the sheer destruction of the First World War, so in 1932, as European leaders were meeting in Geneva to put limits on war, Albert Einstein called a press conference and announced to the shock of the privileged few (the aforementioned leaders), "One does not make wars less likely by formulating rules of warfare ... War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished."

It's time to heed these exigent words: to find something more useful, more inclusive to unite around than nationalism. In time, with practice, I'm sure we will discover many many wonderful human traits, but for now how about survival? Like Martin Luther King said, "We'll either live as sisters and brothers, or die as fools."