If that is so, would you be in favor of having another global war to push progress even faster? Or do you think that a disaster like a war fills the survivors with a desire to do something positive instead...and rebuild? I think it's the latter. I know that my father was in the war, fought hard, and his reaction to the whole thing was to say "It was the stupidest way of lives and material that I ever saw in my life." He vowed to somehow survive it, and when he did...to NEVER participate in such a thing again, but do something positive with his life instead. He made friends with many Germans after the war, and they felt the same way only even moreso, because they'd been on the losing end. It was their hunger for peace and for positive achievement that turned Germany and Japan into such successful countries after those war years had passed...they gave up on militarism, turned their back on it, and did better things.

I wish the USA would do the same, but the USA has not yet had the chastening experience of being humbled by being the loser in a world war.