So I was at the gas station today, and I saw a bumper sticker that didn’t make me smile, it made me think (and not in that nice, museful, Hmmm isn’t that profound way either).
I have no intention on making this into any sort of debate whatsoever, and my reaction to the sticker is in no way a reflection of my views on the subject.
It read:
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Oooook? So if you equate a war with an earthquake, doesn’t it follow that a war is (like an Earthquake) a destructive, dangerous, *unavoidable natural * phenomenon. Of course that isn’t the case, but… the sticker made no sense to me. I understand the point they were trying to make, but IMHO, they completely failed to make it.
I think the point they were trying to make is that, in both cases, after the dust settles, you’re still left with a lot of displaced people, dead bodies, and a big mess to clean up.
Though IMO the point would have been better made if it had simply said, “In a war there are no winners.”
There is a car around town - like a white monte carlo with very dark tinted windows…maybe from the mid 1980’s. It’s such a trashy car - and the bumper sticker says, “Don’t laugh. Your daughter may be in here.”
