Investment in destruction may be the end of us Flushing: History is studied by the conquests of some group over another. We stupidly glorify the men who led the conquests, and without much emotion quote the numbers of people killed. The human suffering, the loss of limbs, the burnt flesh and the killing are accepted as normal. In ancient times, humans rushed at each other with clubs and stones, then with metal swords, then guns, then with tanks and airplanes, and now with nuclear weapons. Armies were invented, walls were built and battles were fought on battlefields, sparing the women,...