[Peace-discuss] Money vs. weapon technology

[Bob Illyes]

This is the email that Jenifer responded to. I sent it to
peace-discuss, but got nothing back, and I'm probably not the
only one who failed to get it, so here it is again:

War was around before money was invented in Lydia about 2600 years
ago, Jenifer. I think we must look not to money or to capitalism
but rather to human nature for an explanation. No one knows, for
example, what was behind the Greek dark ages that started about
1250 BC. I would guess that it was the introduction of new weapons
technology in the form of iron weapons to a species that wasn't
really up to handling it responsibly. It was definitely not
money or capitalism

Incidentally, I support Edwards, not Obama. Edwards is running
partly on the economic issues that used to define the Democrats,
but have largely disappeared in our glorious new Gilded Age.

Bob