Can and should we not start speaking of a global peace? Can we not speak of an end game, in which all the major powers cease their striving to build the best and most destructive weapons? Imagine if we redirected one third of our Defense Budget to other purposes, like global economic development using something like the Kiva program of microloans. We reduce the warranted fears of the Chinese and Russians, and we help the world.
And can we not let the Chinese have their part of the world, the Russians, theirs, and we “get” our hemisphere? Is it really our problem what happens overseas. now?
There is an old saying that only the dead have seen the end of war. But why? Why, with all the material abundance we possess, the technology we possess, the POTENTIAL we possess?