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AMBASSADORS OF PEACE
Suppose they had a war and nobody came.
Our observation on the concept of war is that it always requires the invisible third party--a.k.a., the agent provocateur. The agent provocateur is generally a full-time employee of the Military Industrial Complexes (war industry corporations) and is well paid for aggressively and antagonistically exploiting the differences between two or more groups, cultures or factions within or without the boundaries of a targeted political subdivision. If the truth be known, most people simply tend to get along with their neighbours without a violent conflict, all the while quietly suffering, tolerating or remediating the differences that hazard their navigation along the preferred road to peace.
This leaves us to emphasize the following biblical understanding that war is the sport of kings(Proverbs 10:23; Proverbs 26:17-28). Today's kings fail to resemble the noble Braveheart or Robert the Bruce types of yesteryear who actually imperiled their own lives for their countrymen's convictions while leading a battle. Today's kings are internationalists who wear suits and ties, having smiling faces, while trading conflict for cash. They are a constant reminder of how elitism has eroded their moral courage as statesmen and their love of country as citizens. These kings have no plans to back up their strong talk with the personal action of placing their lives amongst those of their brothers and countrymen on a battlefield. History well records that their motives are money, hedonism and global conquest.
An unsubsidized, honest and politically incorrect professor of Global Economics 101 would be quick to highlight and prove to his students that those industries involved in the manufacture of war-making material and supply might be forced to learn humbly how to flip a cheeseburger at the nearest fast-food restaurant, given the absence of the battlefield. He might also possess the candor to expose the latest, cleverly-crafted political media schemes and the most recent hi-tech manipulation for instigating a hostile human aggression. Nowadays it's easy to see the invocation and misuse of patriotic themes or the media exploitation of alleged adversarial harms, fabricated or otherwise, enticing the reckless and youthful zeal of an at-risk age group, 18-25 years (having more hormone than IQ), the same group that insurance companies characteristically surcharge (for well-documented statistical reasons).
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