Veterans Day '67 on Plum Street...

[Jimaz]

If you want to trace warfare back to simple root causes, it's hard to avoid noting the historic proximity of warfare to regions of oil and opium origin, both natural resources with guaranteed markets.

Fresh water is also such a resource—surrounding Michigan.

[Henry Whalley]

If you want to trace warfare back to simple root causes, it's hard to avoid noting the historic proximity of warfare to regions of oil and opium origin, both natural resources with guaranteed markets.

Fresh water is also such a resource—surrounding Michigan.

Agreed, and I'm surprised it's not universally acknowledged that Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, et al., waged an opium war in Indochina as the French Connection began to lose its grip. Follow the money.