Sadly, if you sit with a history book and a map, you'll find that nearly every border was drawn just after a war, and the winner got to draw the line. For the last several millenia, what we have written history of anyway, the winners thought that war does work.

As long as agressive psychotics can get control of armies, their neighbors will have to have armies too.

It is getting better, and several psychotics have been contained relatively bloodlessly in the last century, but the day when we can resolve every dispute peacefully in a world court is still in the distant future.

I think that continual pressure from a populace that doesn't want their kids dieing in overseas adventures, has had a lot to do with the advances. Preventing dictators from successfully lying with propaganda, keeps them from building the support they need to start a war.

Jeff Smith