People are not "good";
     people are animals...
          capable of becoming human.
Males cannot and will not
     cease the competition that
          produces both football and
               the game of war.
Put two young men in cars
     side by side and the race
           is on before the engines
               are turned on.
Given the choice of peace
     with compromise or war
           with winner takes all,
                men choose the latter.
Religion [not faith] is one
     of the top three causes of
            war and hatred
                (resources and fear).
As far as my reading of
      history, a war has never been
            "won."
There have been some close
      ones, some without which
            the lights would have
                 gone out for centuries,
but mostly the winners volunteer
      for being the victims next
            time, or winning changes
                them into what they
                     were fighting against.
War seems to be good business
     until everything
            collapses.

Chaplain [LTC] James C. Berbiglia, USA, Retired, is a Presbyterian Church (USA) Minister