[ by Charles Cameron — hint: peace comes at a far higher cost ]
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No longer do you need to sit long hours in meditation or travel to Syria and borrow a gun to show your appreciation for peace or jihad. You can now buy a t-shirt for the cool Caliphate [upper panel, below]…

or a comfy chair like the one made for the supercool Dalai Lama [lower panel, above].

And that’s the power of — choose one:

(a) symbols in the mind

(b) money in the bank

Thing is, the t-shirt, showing your relaxed appreciation of jihad, will run you about $10 — but a similarly relaxed appreciation of meditation will cost you $10,000 — war is a thousand times cheaper than peace, give or take.

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Sources:

The Wire, Retailers Capitalize on Iraq Crisis With ISIS Merchandise

Chicago Tribune, Desire a Dalai Lama chair?

Nice irony in that Chicago Tribune headline, no?