Much more the pope had to say, but one gets a sense that much of the world stopped listening after the first few words. He's only saying what he has to say. He's not being realistic. And because such is the case, we must find a better way. The only way to peace with justice, our Holy Father makes clear in his first encyclical, is man himself.
Man is the way.
Unless and until we come to believe in the sacredness of every human person, at every point in life, of every race, ethnic background, color, religion, there can be no lasting peace with justice, and we can no more bomb our way to peace than we can find peace in driving people from their homes and murdering the unwanted. It seems to me frighteningly easy to disengage ourselves from the sufferings of a war and its aftermath as long as it's not only far away, but being waged by computer-calculated weapons that dazzle us by their seemingly inanimate genius, and cost us little more than a boost in taxes. Unless one of our sons or brothers or husbands or fathers is shot down or captured. Instantly, I'm in another world, or a couple of dozen other worlds, depending on how many stations my TV allows me. We are one body.