Then we&#x27;ll <i>hopefully</i> have peace, <i>perhaps</i>.<p>&gt; By the same logic that a wound heals when you stop poking the scab.<p>Except that our governments see themselves as providing first aid to an infected wound. Infected wounds only get worse without treatment.<p>&gt; If there&#x27;s any lesson from the past 15 years, it is this: state engineering does not work. Period.<p>Their intention was (probably) good, execution on the other hand was less then stellar.<p>&gt; You cannot control it. You don&#x27;t &quot;allow&quot; anything. You cannot stop anything. The forces are beyond your control.<p>1940&#x27;s France would beg to disagree. The Allies in WW2 clearly stopped the Axis powers and controlled their aggression.<p>&gt; Americans and Europeans have to step out of the colonial mindset of trying to control the world.<p>Agreed.