While taking the dogs for an evening walk tonight, I noticed the sky was lit with the tiny sparkle of hundreds of lightning bugs! I felt anxious knowing that Nico was at the end of one of the leashes....and his curiousity was getting the better of him. At first his bushy head was swinging back and forth like a pendulum. And then...it became a game. How many lightning bugs can you eat in one night?
The air was thick with the bugs tonight, perhaps because of the humidity. They were a force to be reckoned with, even for this human who was spitting them out of her mouth, and batting them out of her face.
I wondered something. Could we apply Nico's reasoning to war? The bugs became the enemy tonight. They made it impossible for them to stroll happily. They flew into their tiny little eyes and made it hard to see. So when confronted with the enemy of the moment....Nico made a quick decision. HE ATE THEM! Complete obliteration at the hands of a rambunctious cockapoo named Nico.
Nico doesn't have the power of reason, as my characters do...but sometimes his actions make more sense than theirs does. But war isn't rational and either are paramilitaries.
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