It used to be that we’d fight wars to win them. And in the best of wars, we would then broker a peace that would allow our enemies to return to life, to prosper and to become a valued partner in the larger pattern of creating stability and order. It was true that unspeakable horrors happened in war: Tokyo and Dresden were firebombed; Nagasaki and Hiroshima were nuked; horrendous rapes, torture and cruelty of all sorts happened; but when it was over, reconciliation was attempted. When it was over, we allowed a measure of freedom to exist even if it were only a measure. ...