Do War Toys for Children Cause Future Wars?

If you go to any toy store or even look at thedoubt that, as we are not necessarily a nation
shelves at Wal-Mart in the toy section you will seewhich runs around causing wars, but rather has
various war toys. Things like plastic machine guns,been put into a position of being the head police
plastic army hats, jet fighter planes and armydog to prevent catastrophic leadership failure
tanks. When we were growing up there were G.I.resulting in human rights abuses, losses of
Joe's and other such war toys.freedom and tyrannical dictators run a muck.
I can remember as a team building nearly everyOne thing is for sure however and that is that
1:72 scale plastic model airplane and World War IIthese toys are much more real life and detailed
Army tank and yet I do not believe that thisthan anything our parents had. Should our children
caused me to love war. Nevertheless the questionbe subjected to war toys, so they can
has been brought up by some folks that sayunderstand that sometimes the price of freedom
these toys do indeed glorify war; indeed andcosts a lot more than we think? Consider this and
maybe they do, I am not a psychologist.debate it amongst yourselves if you like.
But do war toys of today's children cause wars? I