The person of the Warrior, like any other person, has a claim on understanding, sympathy, affection, if you will. The role of the Warrior, however, deserves only destruction, like the role of the executioner in a civilized society, like the role of a spy or a terrorist in a peaceful world.

Game models like Prisoner's Dilemma are instructive because they point up precisely why lack of trust leads to outcomes that are bad for both sides. Lack of trust is not the whole story. The main trouble lies in the mistaken belief that "rational" choices are those that seem to be in one's own interest.

One of the most disheartening features of the current debate on national security has been the perversion of the scientific mode of reasoning until instances of it appear as ghastly caricatures of human thought.

The goal must be a common one — the dismantling of the global war machine. This means that the legitimacy of the institutions that support the machine must be denied.

"I have children, and I do not want them to writhe in agony or to turn into automata or to repeat the atrocious lies amid which they live. Therefore, I am engaged in a struggle, which I often feel to be a hopeless one, but which I have no choice but to wage."

War is not in the human heart. War resides in the institutions spawned by war, which, in turn, spawn wars.