Many signs manifest that the specter of warfare has been banished at least from our consciousness.
Whether a specter can be killed is, of course, a separate question. Employees of 20 years were told not to bother to come to work the next day. An American general was ordered not to wear his uniform into the White House. Boeing has laid off some 20,000 workers, since we don't need new airplanes, exacerbating the budgetary crisis in the State of Washington. On January 15, the United States and 124 other nations signed a pact banning the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons.