Well kat, it couldn't have been Einstein you quote about preparing for war, he barely got out of Germany as a German Jew, then gave us the theory of the Atomic bomb. The only time I am aware that we averted a war by just talking was in Cambodia, as I remember someone calling the Killing Fields, the "Quaker Peace". Or was that Poland? Or Ruwanda? Damn, someone help me out here. Was there ever a time when talking alone just worked?

Or was talking softly and carrying a big stick? Damn, I didn't know TR was a Quaker...