"In the future we'll have to practice "supply side security" and ask questions we ignored when we looked only at the world as consumers of security. What are the sources of enmity against us, and how could those sources be reduced? How can we increase the supply of goodwill which is ultimately the most stable and plentiful source of security? What could be done to cause others to see us as important allies in meeting their own critical needs?

We'll have to take seriously the goal of hearing and understanding needs; building economies, schools, hospitals; earning a reputation for deep commitment to the well-being of all and accountability to the world community.

There's an old saying: If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything you see is a nail. It's time for America to demonstrate that we have more tools than big hammers. Our task is to leave no doubt that we care as much about the survival and well-being of others as our own. And we don't even need to be generous to do this.

The truth is, our own survival is at stake."

A good article in the Christian Science Monitor on what I agree to be our only possible future course of action in a world where pretty much anyone will be able to get their hands on the weapons to kill thousands.

"The man who told the world "I Won't Back Down," "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Don't Come Around Here No More" doesn't need any assertiveness-training course. Tom Petty's determined, sometimes defiant attitude has collided with the music business throughout the years. For instance, in 1982 Petty recorded Hard Promises with the Heartbreakers, only to find that his then-record company had plans to use his name to initiate a new, higher $9.98 list price for albums. Petty withheld the tapes and threatened to retitle his record $8.98 in protest. "

Tom Petty talks to Rolling Stone about some of the stupidity going on in the music industry of today.  His complaints, as summarized by Rolling Stone in the article, follow:

• Radio is not even worth listening to
• All anyone thinks about is money
• It's ridiculous to make people pay twenty dollars for a CD
• Only a complete greedhead would charge $150 for a concert ticket
• Record labels don't care about artists
• Filthy lyrics make me sick
• Only a sick culture would sexualize young girls
• Why are we rewarding people for being rich?
• And TV is worse
• A lot of artists are as greedy as the industry