In picking a good metaphor to capture the vast data of ‘defensiveness,’ the metaphor ‘mechanisms’ would never do. The metaphor ‘warmaking’ is far more cogent; it gets at the interpersonal component; it includes both the defensive and offensive activities, both fear and aggression; it includes the self-justifying rationalizations for what we do; it describes people with vast competencies and aspirations who somehow have gone awry; it implies we are both victims and victimizers; it implies the peacemaking