Old Humanity, our dear friend, is facing a major test just now. The test is to determine whether we can count to 5. It is so simple, on the one hand, that it seems ludicrous, but, on the other hand, the forces that are arrayed against it make it seem that we will never pass. The most recent wake up call, one whose message we do seem to have heard, was the Vietnam War. I think that we have made real headway on the war issue.
People are pretty fed up with war as a problem-solving tool.
We see daily in our Vietnam veterans the results of what went on in Vietnam. Now we are beginning to see in our own population the fruits of our adventures in the Gulf, which included the extermination of thousands of Iraqis-a fact seldom talked about. The total price we will have to pay for that solution remains to be seen. But you can bet it won't be insignificant. We also have, almost daily, the results of the fanaticism and carnage in Bosnia, and the equally fanatic and greed-driven pathos in Rwanda.