Do we have the capacity to prevent war

Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

Wars are fought on two fronts. Macro wars which involve governments and power brokers and micro wars which involve you and me. We have limited ability, other than our voice and democratic vote, to frustrate power brokers entering global war on our behalf but we can control the micro wars that take place within us and our smaller communities.

The capacity to prevent war starts with you and me. This statement may seem a little naive, but nevertheless I believe it to be true. We, as rational people, have to learn from past behaviors. The nuclear bombs dropped upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 caused approx. 200,000 deaths, half of the deaths were instant and the remainder took place over 2-4 months due to…