yes, but...
we are now, more than during the darkest days of the "cold war", on the brink of a nuclear disaster.
the form the disaster will take is yet unknown, but the proliferation of nuclear weapons among highly unstable political units, as well as in the hands of our military, which is run by an extremely unstable political unit at this moment, can cascade into confrontations, counter-blows, and ultimately, a defeat of humanity, which will struggle to survive.
if this were a war of ideologies, opinions, and so forth, and nuclear arms were not in the picture, optimism could be found, even by cynical bears like me.
but I am afraid that while our erstwhile leaders were raiding the cookie jar, much serious business in the real world was left undone.
Nonproliferation treaties, decommissioning of warheads when there was a chance that financial rewards could work, well, you get the drift.
I saw huge demonstrations by people all over the world before the adventurism in Iraq have no effect at all, seemingly voices shouting into the great wind: unheard, unheeded.
interesting times, indeed.
this was the business we were to have fixed, for our children, and their children.
I see it as utter failure and futility.
but I am encouraged by voices like yours, who continue the good fight, and encourage me to do so as well.
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