On NBC News yesterday a report from besieged Kobani, Syria, dealt with Kurdish women warriors fighting ISIS.  One woman, nineteen years old, showed the hand grenade she keeps to kill herself in case she's ever about to be captured.  This image suggests in a few seconds bravery, resistance, heroism, and a lonely fight supported ineffectually from the air by a superpower big on talk and small on non-delusional actions.
     This day used to be called Armistice Day.  In 1918, at eleven in the morning on Europe's muddy Western Front, on the eleventh of November, "the guns fell silent," as I'm sure someone once put it.  Europe's war leaders said, in essence, "Enough."  Four years of intense and pointless warfare used to add up to what came to be called, "the war to end all wars." 
     We call today Veterans Day now and warfare is endless.  The nineteen year old Kurdish woman with the hand grenade she'll use on herself if ISIS gets close enough to her for a this or that choice does not profit from war.  Those who do profit from it can't imagine the necessity of saying, "Enough."
                                                                                 Vic Neptune