Robert C. Koehler: The global suicide budget
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
I truly wish these words of Ike, uttered seven decades ago, were no longer quite so relevant. Perhaps what he should have called it was a “cross of irony.”
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested in the ability to make war. . . to kill one another, to end, perhaps, life altogether. It’s the planet’s largest collective global military budget ever, but — oh, the irony — the number will keep on growing . .
