ANd just to make it clear, I wasn't deriding th enotion of pouring billions into peace. My point was much simpler and much less dunderheaded than that, Ms Laughing!! I was serious when i said I would like to see the design. In order to design something, you have to know how to get where you're going. We've all enjoyed breakouts of peace, more here than elsewhere, and more since 1975, I would guess, than before it.

But who among you knows enough about the dynamics of the time andf the people involved to hazard a guess as to what "causes" peace to occur? Which of the many elements are the most important? Prosperity, I might guess; but there have been some prosperous societies which were always getting mucked up in battle/ Maybe some sort of spiritual focus? How ya gonna fund that? Or maybe some other kind of "meme" being circulated around.

Point is it is easy to call for billions to be spent on peace, and no-one really knows what the weapons are!!! Don't laugh -- mrs Fields' Cookies might just be the answer -- chocolate, don'cha know. I wasn't deriding the impulse. But where's the PLAN???

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