"If it was ok to punish people or nations for what they could do, or might do, we'd all be dead or in jail."
Ain't THAT the truth.

In a general sense, I would love to see a world in which peace was the daily reality and any outbreak of hostility was met with an immediate and very disagreeable consequence. However, I have no idea where we would find a Solomon to run such a place or mete out such decisions. (I am reminded of a line in Jacob Bronowski's remarkable book, "The Ascent of Man": Think it possible, in the bowels of Christ, that you might be wrong.)