It is not naive to propose alternatives to war. We could bethe kindest nation on Earth, inside and out. I look at the bigger picture andsee that many nations with fewer resources than ours have found solutions toproblems that seem to baffle us. I'd like an end to corporate welfare so wecould put that money into ending homelessness, as many other nations have donebefore us. I would like a humane health-care system organized along the lines ofCanada's. I'd like the efficient public-transit system of Paris in my city,thank you. I'd like us to consume energy at the modest level that Europeans do,and then go them one better. I'd like a government that subsidizes renewableenergy sources instead of forcefully patrolling the globe to protect oilgluttony. Because, make no mistake, oil gluttony is what got us into this holywar, and it's a deep tar pit. I would like us to sign the Kyoto agreement today,and reduce our fossil-fuel emissions with legislation that will ease us intosafer, less gluttonous, sensibly reorganized lives. If this were the face weshowed the world, and the model along with a military budget the size ofIceland's.