I remember gazing out across the DMZ at North Korea almost 40 years ago,

[Ron Green]

and saying to my buddy: "You know, this civilization is 4,000 years old, and they've only been split apart for 15 or 20 years. They speak the same language, and lots of them are even related to each other. Why can't they get together?"

Handing the joint back to me, he grunted, "Yeah, this is stupid. It doesn't make any sense to keep a nation apart just to prop up one regime against another."

Now it's been not just 15, but 50 years of this. Question: if dope-smoking teenage soldiers can figure this stuff out, why can't our leaders?

[Spinzonner]

1. Don't mess with the Military-Industrial Complex

You're dealing with the primary forces of nature.

(I love Paddy Chayefsky)

[BikeWriter]

2. Why do you hate America?

:sarcasm:

[BobRossi]

3. Because they don't!

I have always felt that it should be a requirment that before anyone can vote they must toke!

[Ron Green]

7. Although daily marijuana use is probably not a good thing

(and probably not the best thing for active-duty military, as I was when I was high a lot), I agree that part of a broad and thoughtful approach to a philosophy of life ought to be a personal experience with consciousness-altering plants. I'd sooner vote for someone who "inhaled, but didn't get addicted" than someone claiming never to have tried it.

[wakeme2008]

4. It appears that the people of Viet Nam

are happy and doing OK. You do not hear about food and housing problems there.

[Ron Green]

5. Think about how much the industrial capacity of the South could have

helped North Korea over all these years, and how a progressive-socialist government could have evolved.

[Straight Shooter]

6. Even children saying their prayers can figure it out.

Power and money. That's what drives the wedge.