I just realized that I have an opinion on this subject. So I guess I'll post it.

This is what I think and I'd be willing to state my opinion as a prediction, with about a 65 to 70% probability of coming true...

I think there's a pretty good chance that the thing that's going to shake people out of the current militarily oriented mindset is when a problem of an even bigger magnitude than international hostilities and terrorism comes along to take people's minds off of killing. Such as a big environmental catastrophy. With a problem like that, there is no bad guy we can go after and try to kill. And to solve it would require cooperation between all of the countries in the world.

Here's a strange little idea I have about that though... I think it's possible that this little anti-terrorist business we're involved in right now will end up teaching us a lot about cooperation with other nations and we will use what we learn to help us with the bigger problem if and when it comes. And I'm guessing that some of the coalitions that are being formed right now will come in handy in the event of such a crisis.

So while I think that the military way of dealing with things is not sustainable in the long run and will probably go the way of the dinosaurs eventually, we are learning, in the context of what's happening right now, things we will probably need to know at some point in the future, in spite of our stubborn little selves.