We would do well to heed Mikhail Gorbachev's exhortation (from his essay in Time, April27/May4):
"I'll never tire of repeating: we need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics and political thinking.
. . . I call upon them (world leaders) to cut military spending by 10% to 15%. This is the least we should do now, as a first step toward a new consciousness, a new civilization."
Spoiler alert: we won't.
But that doesn't change the simple and compelling fact that we should.
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