he argument for it is that if you call yourself the Department of Defense, you can call anything that's happening in the world as somehow related to your own defense or an ally's defense. So I might have had it backwards, that when you call it defense, you can really easily make the argument that you should send some people over there to die. Well, sure, it's happening on the far side of the world, but if you let that get bigger, it's coming for us. So our national defense requires that we go attack it right now. So you would have an infinite number of those.

And if you call it the Department of War, pretty much nobody, at least in the public, wants a war. You know, there might be somebody in the military-industrial complex or neocons or something. But calling it war would probably make everybody want to avoid it, and it would certainly make our adversaries want to avoid it too, because we're not going to, if you cause a problem for us, we're not going to bring you our defense. We're going to bring you a war. So it is a little bit better. It's a little bit more threatening. I'll give you that. So I'm softening on this and I will take the L. Department of War might be just right. Maybe. We'll see. And you know, it's also likely that it doesn't change anything at all. But I do believe this is the hypnotist training in me that the exact words you use to refer to things, it does change behavior. You know, maybe in a subtle way, but when you're talking about war, you know, any little subtle movement needs to be thought about carefully.

All right, let's check my BS detector. Now, the one thing that I tell you I might be able to do well, you know, I'm sort of a grab bag of things I do well and things I don't do well like everybody else. But one of the things I think I do well, not 100%, because this is not the sort of thing you could be flawless at, but I think I'm pretty