a distressing article
Have we painted ourselves into a particularly nasty little corner here? If so, what will it cost us to get out? (I'm not talking money.)
I'm reminded of a line from a movie. "True Romance," I think it was.
"It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it."
Personally, I don't believe the old adage that preparing for hostilities will bring them, any more than being unprepared ensures peace. Hasn't history demonstrated repeatedly that military unpreparedness simply invites aggression? A sad commentary on human nature, yes, but an accurate one.
We should, by all means, try to transcend our base nature as a species; we're idiots if we don't at least try. Unfortunately, we're also fools if we think it'll work.