I'm not sure if these words are accurate, and how I hope they are wrong. But how can we spend any amount of money on dropping bombs, or trying to control who has them, when just a fraction of that money could solve one of the reasons why nations have in the past gone to war? I understand that war is fueled, not for food so much today as for politics and economics, and this is sadder still. Governments bicker about oil prices and who's guns are bigger than who's, all the while our children die of starvation, suffering one of the most horrific deaths, a death I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. And I understand that people sacrifice their lives to fight for their countries, and I don't want to make their personal convictions meaningless, it is good to stand for what we believe in. I just believe there is such life to fight for, the kind that brings life by life, not life by death. And the thought of one of these little ones trying to sleep with no food in their bellies, and no hope of when a scrap of food might come their way, how can we do anything but lay down our arms, beat our weapons into plows, and work for the peace the world so desperately needs?
