katlaughing, you were perfectly clear about the purpose of the thread. However, it is a bit silly to think you can control thread drift in a forum like this, with so much contentiousness over the war and peace issues, isn't it? Or even control the thread drift on any subject, for that matter?

I'm with you, BTW. I think people focusing their intent and their actions on preventing war is the ONLY way we will prevent war. But I disagree that the only we way that is done is by closing our eyes, holding hands, and sending up our prayers while we hum "Let There Be Peace on Earth".

C'mon katlaughing, your way isn't the one and only way to peace. And "simply imagining peace" doesn't prevent a war. Action does. Yes, we must be clear in our intent before we take action. We need to plan our actions so that they will have the desired effect. But we don't need to get on your particular peace wagon to do that.