My kind of world.

I suspect that every war is preventable.  Through deal-making. Even with the devil himself.  Compromises. Give and take. That end in benefits. For mankind. Far better than the death and devastation wrought by  war.  Think about it. Take World War II. If a masterful diplomatic deal had been concocted that benefited everyone. One can imagine it. On hindsight. Almost a century later. Maybe it would have required an intervention. By the creator himself. Or his equivalent. A god-like emissary. Here on Earth. Of course, that would have taken compromising. With the devil. With Hitler.  Maybe Hitler would have had to agree to sending Jews abroad. To other countries. Rather than to concentration camps and gas chambers. With the rest of the world willing to accept the refugees. And maybe Hitler’s aggression, and invasion of other countries, could have been curbed by tough measures short of war. Economic sanctions.  And the buying of time. To allow the Germans to come to their senses.  To overthrow Hitler, or to quell his perverse antics.  As it turned out, six million Jews died in the Holocaust. And tens of millions of soldiers and civilians died.  An enormous waste of human life. If history could be played all over again. In different ways. If one could turn back the clock. And try again. To create a significantly different scenario/outcome. That would be grand. To have the opportunity for a second chance. A do-over. To create something closer to my kind of world. –Jim Broede