What would you like the next war to be against?

Americans are not a species. How about we don’t have any new wars for a while?

Some might say we are. That’s a good question on its own.

War.

War.

Women’s rights. LOL

A war against war itself !

If not a war on wars, then at least a war on corporations and corporatocracy. They scare me.

I would like to see a war on the war on marijuana, followed swiftly by a war on big pharma.

I suggest that we stop all “wars”. The war on drugs simply lead to higher prices for drugs, the war on poverty was trumped by the housing recession, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are stupid and useless.

If we are going to have a war, let it be on the military/industrial/banking/and prison complexes

I have been an antiwar activist from an early age. I grew up during Vietnam, and ever since I can remember, I thought war was the wrong way to go about things. Warmongers always say that appeasement is bad, but that’s not the only alternative. War is the failure of diplomacy. I’ve never been in a war in my life.

Using “war” as a metaphor for an effort to solve a problem is kind of silly, in my opinion. War on cancer? That was a fundraising slogan. It helped Nixon get Congress to appropriate funds for research. Research. Research is not war. Sorry.

The War on Drugs is, at best, a police action. As should be the war on terrorism. Again, they are called wars in order to inflame people’s passions and to raise money. People like to be patriotic. But it’s pretty pathetic for politicians to resort to this kind of rhetoric and is causes big problems in the long run.

War is just a metaphor. An inappropriate one, at that, in most cases. I don’t think it’s a useful way of seeing things, and I’d rather not declare war ever again. Let’s solve our problems using cooperation, not war. We’ll do a better job, and people will be much happier in the long run.

Bigotry.

Cheese.
If we’re going to have ridiculous ‘wars’, why not have it against something equally ridiculous?

Welfare recipients who don’t deserve it; they’re a drain on the economy.

Handguns. So many dead everyday unnecessarily.

Poverty, homelessness, fear, stigma, hate, intolerance, ...

A nation state—preferably one with next to no defense forces.

The last thing I want is a war on war. The USA declared war on poverty in 1964, and got more poverty. We declared war on drugs in 1971, and now incarcerate a larger portion of our population for drug crimes than any other nation on Earth. Still, drug inspired violence has turned parts of our inner cities into constant combat zones with murder rates rivaling those in Yemen. Speaking of Yemen, we declared war on terrorism in 2001 and got way more terrorism, with it metastasizing from being based in one nation to hundreds.

So for God’s sake, don’t even think about declaring war on war. A good military can fight pretty well against another military. Armies are utterly useless when fighting ideas.

The evilness of humanity, but an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’

So my answer is, no war.

Our worse enemy is wilful ignorance and baseless intolerance and hatred. How would it be if we wage war on that? I wish I knew how we would do that effectively.

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. It’s time for those swords into ploughshares,,,

How about a war on ignorance.

War on aggressive terminology for the growth humanity yearns to make toward more enlightened manifestation.

If we started a war on war… we’d just wind up chasing our own trail in a violent blood-pool of a circle. I vote we go all-out war on peace, and then amaze ourselves as our better nature emerges in rebellion against something so repulsive.
I think it would work. But then, I’m a stubborn optimist despite myself.

One of the only things we can all get behind- against child abuse in any form.

@KNOWITALL Oh, we can all get behind that one, the problem is that a lot of people can’t agree on where to draw the line in regards to what is acceptable discipline and what is abuse.

@WillWorkForChocolate Agreed. Being spanked didn’t hurt me in the least, except maybe my pride that last time when I was 13 or so.

I think as long as no marks are left on the skin, it seems to pass Childs Services in our area. If you leave marks, then you get investigated in a very apathetic way.

Yep.

You guys are cruisin’ for a bruisin’, as me late, lamented pappy used to say. But then, you’d like that. Or at least see no harm in it.

A fight against stupid terms beginning with “war on”

Matt is absolutely right. We have wars on conditions and philosophy and appoint “Czars” to run them. There are enough law and administrators to take care of the country’s problems without creating special offices and extraordinary powers. This foolishness must stop.

Ironically the real wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are called “police actions’. We need to change the name of the defense department back to War department and get organizations like the CIA and NSA back under democratic, transparent, control. Glenn Beck is wrong about many things but when he says that this country is trending towards a dictatorship or fascist government, he’s correct.

We have given too much power to police agencies and secret police organizations. We need to take it all back and reform those offices and keep closer watch on the Federal Reserve Bank and Wall St. As things stand, the only people that control the power and direction of this country are CEO’s and the elite leadership. Democracy has been whittled down to between two bad choices, Democrat or Republican.

The German translation for the word war is ‘Krieg’. But whenever there’s news from America about some ‘war on’, the translators use the German word ‘Kampf’ which means fight.