But must we play the game entirely by the rules put down by those who see violence as the only way to peace? I get the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction but see Canada as having been working in other ways to provide a secure environment- one that seeks compromise to avoid the need for violence, not shorten the trigger before it is enabled. Empowering warlords is essentially how we make the world safe according to the "adults" in their service but I truly believe we need to find  and ramp up new ways because all the normal stuff does is feed the system that creates more tyrants. Remember: War does not determine who is right or who is the winner, only who is left alive - and that is a number that will get evermore frighteningly small as our weapons become more deadly.