Agreed Carol,,,,if aggressive countries kept their dogs of war within their own borders & on shot (I didn't mean short) leash & let the rest live they saw fit, we'd be part way to where we'd eventually like to be. The other part would be to trade with all the cards on the table, nothing secretly marked, no underhanded dealing, no cheating, no ganging up & playing both ends against the middles & keeping our CIA's, MI5's, Mossad's, Hamas's, Hezbollah's, Fatha's, PLO's, Al-Qaeda's all penned, caged up & locked out & out from under the porches & back yards of other nations that would also go along way. A bit of a good jester (pun intended) once & a while & a lending hand here & there would be absoultly shockingly positive in the way of mending fences because at the rate we're all going we'll be building walls & fences around our ponds & gopher holes & arming the jack rabbits & assholes with anything from flame throwers to blow darts & they'll be hiding behind every tumbleweed & wishing well & wishing that they could just once put a bullseye on the neighbor across the street because their eyes are of a different color/slant/shape than that of their mother's (half word here).
But that's foolish of me when I think of all the fear we can strike into the heart of a nation & all the capital we can squander & of the resources that can be plundered & the enviorment that can be destroyed in the name of personnal & corporate gain. We sell fear as if it were food & treat the earth as if she were our whore & we fall hook, line & sinker, well as we become the fish food we will become just as scarce as the same fish we eat.

Barry