No Treason

Someone on the Mises forum mentioned the possibility of duels returning to our modern culture, and it occurred to me that this whole Iraq/Bin Laden/Afghanistan mess could be sorted out with such an event.

If George Bush had faced off with Osama Bin Laden in a pistol duel, with Dick Cheney vs. Saddam Hussein as the undercard, an enormous amount of money could have been raised for charity, thousands of lives saved, trillions of debt and destruction avoided, and we would have a 100% chance that at least two criminals would be dead.

From now on, instead of old chickenhawks sending young citizens to die in foreign wars, I think our leaders should settle the conflict wih a duel. It’s much more economical, it’d probably be entertaining, and it would lead to less leaders willing to kill by remote.

This might be how such a Constitutional Amendment might read,

Whereas, all national leaders must resolve military conflicts first by negotiation, and failing that, a duel to the death.

Of course as a pacifist, I might be willing to let Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper participate in a match of NHL 2008 with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to decide if the Ukraine should be able to join NATO. While Harper is a chickenhawk, he has reduced the national sales tax by 2%. He may be helpful in future tax reform endeavours.

Plus, I have a feeling that Putin would have some Jedi-KGB trash talk that would keep NATO from getting the upper hand in overtime.

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