Civilization is having the gun and choosing not to use it. Not bothering with the gun, singing kumbayah and depending on human goodwill is never going to work.

Civilization is having the gun and choosing not to use it. Not bothering with the gun, singing kumbayah and depending on human goodwill is never going to work. Human history shows there are competing interests who are willing to kill to get their way. Those lulled into a sense of complacency by fantasy narratives about the how the world works learn the hard way. See the list of recent victims in the middle east starting from Iraq, Libya and now Syria. Tens to hundreds of thousands killed, families destroyed, infrastructure, education, healthcare destroyed and countries sent back decades if not hundred years in service of human greed. And 50 years later commentators will dismiss these 'third world' countries as utter failures and insinuate some deficiency without any context of history. You can debate for ever but the man with the biggest gun gets the last word.