Just a matter of days...

Before children die because some leader wants to convince some other leader to go away, or die.

Before our lives become even more at risk, tempting terrorism and North Korea's missiles, possibly tipped with atom bombs. Before our young die because the only solution our leader can fix on is to eradicate the Evil in his eyes. Before we begin paying and paying with our sweat and time for the means to begin and then continue for who knows how many years this reckless, destructive and self-destructive venture, and all that will follow from it.

Before he lets loose the dogs of war. And dogs eat dogs. A self-fullfilling prophesy, making the world the way they think it is.

But it isn't, not necessarily. It doesn't have to be.

A new world is creating itself, within the skin of the old.

We, I, and even humanity, may not live long enough to see it walk the earth, if it ever gets that chance. Are we then witnessing the partial-birth abortion of hope?