WWED? What Would Einstein Do?

To answer this question, I recommend the book: The World As I See It by Albert Einstein. This is a short, easy-to-read, moving collection of some of the man's 'non-scientific' writings on topics like pacifism, religion, and the meaning of life. One third of the book is titled 'Politics and Pacifism' and in it you'll find surprisingly timely, surprisingly Chomsky-esc passages like these:

"One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes."

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all that he needed."

"In two weeks the sheep-like masses can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that the men are prepared to put on a uniform and kill and be killed, for the sake of the worthless aims of a few interested parties."

"The greatest obstacle to international order is that monstrously exaggerated spirit of nationalism which also goes by the fair-sounding but misused name of patriotism."

"Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favour of his own country's resigning a portion of its sovereignty in favor of international institutions."

"The handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends."

"Only if the statesmen have behind them the will to peace of a decisive majority in their own country can they attain their great end, and for the formation of this public opinion each one of us is responsible in every word and deed."