And of course it does take time to change human behavior, governmental behavior, and the cultures of the different parts of the world. It always has taken time, it always will. And it's no use supposing that we're going to go fully armed into a completely new and glorious period. And I think that the most important thing to do is to try to build at least some foundation for avoiding the worst happening in the future, and goodness knows we've had some pretty horrendous lessons in the past five years, particularly in Rwanda and Bosnia, about how possible genocide is in the world which we all think we've made better in the last 50 years. And there's nothing original about any of them.
Governments are much more concerned with interests than they are with principles or ethics.
That is certainly true now, it was certainly true in the past, and I suspect it's going to be true in the future. With the possible exception of the Nordic countries and conceivably Canada and one or two other countries around the globe, governments are overwhelmingly concerned with interests. So, incidentally, is the private sector. If you read the story in The New York Times this morning about the new oil field that's been found off-shore in Nigeria and the amazing, wonderfully bland remarks of the spokesman for Shell, you can see what I mean. There's no way that Shell is not going to go on making money out of oil and natural gas, not at all.