Submitted by William Talen on October 25, 2009 - 1:16pm.
Yes he leaves us wondering about the relationship of sports to war. (Certainly the advertisements for armed forces recruiting makes war video games and places them on television between touchdowns and home-runs...)
Peace is a difficult model to pursue in 2009. It doesn't have its Olympics. Obama has an enormous industry that he feels responsbile for. !,000 military bases are maintained outside the continental United States. He has never publicly talked about what all those people would do. How would we go from swords to plowshares. Yes there is Afganistan and Iraq - then there is a whole tradition that colonializes the world.
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Peace is a difficult model to pursue in 2009. It doesn't have its Olympics. Obama has an enormous industry that he feels responsbile for. !,000 military bases are maintained outside the continental United States. He has never publicly talked about what all those people would do. How would we go from swords to plowshares. Yes there is Afganistan and Iraq - then there is a whole tradition that colonializes the world.
Blessings and wildness!
Rev