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Editorial: Mankind's Impossible Dream?
Mankind's Impossible Dream?
Will humanity ever experience lasting
peace?
As the countdown continues toward a new millennium, we seek assurance that the next
century will bring an era of hope and promise, an oasis of peace in man's violent,
troubled history. We hope new leadership, new technologies and new thinking will
lead us away from our chronic dilemmas.
But we shouldn't hold our breath. The indications are not good. We find instead that
the world is an increasingly dangerous place.
No sooner had the NATO bombing stopped in Kosovo than fresh blood flowed in an insurgency
in the former Soviet republic of Dagestan, in a series of terrorist bombings in Russia,
and in East Timor's move for independence from Indonesia.
Meanwhile, Communist China asserted its avowed right to instigate aggressive military
action should Taiwan further assert its independence from the Chinese mainland. North
Korea again threatened its neighbor to the south, and Indian and Pakistani soldiers
skirmished over a disputed border region.
What is so unnerving about these developments is that many of these hostile neighbors
are armed with nuclear arsenals and have the means and will to use them to achieve
their aims should other means fail. The nuclear nightmare, far from being over, threatens
to turn new corners of the globe into a bed of ashes.
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