History Is A Capricious Creature. It Depends

Globalization Was Supposed To Break Down Barriers Between Continents And Bring All Peoples Together. But What Kind Of Globalization Do We Have With Over One Billion People On The Planet Not Having Safe Water To Drink?

Water, Like Religion And Ideology, Has The Power To Move Millions Of People. Since The Very Birth Of Human Civilization, People Have Moved To Settle Close To It. People Move When There Is Too Little Of It. People Move When There Is Too Much Of It. People Journey Down It. People Write, Sing And Dance About It. People Fight Over It. And All People, Everywhere And Every Day, Need It.

The Shortage Of Fresh Water Is The Major Ecological Problem Of This Moment.

The Emerging 'environmentalization' Of Our Civilization And The Need For Vigorous Action In The Interest Of The Entire Global Community Will Inevitably Have Multiple Political Consequences. Perhaps The Most Important Of Them Will Be A Gradual Change In The Status Of The United Nations. Inevitably, It Must Assume Some Aspects Of A World Government.

One Of The Reasons Why This Country Undertook Military Action In Iraq Was That There Are Quite A Few Problems Here, And Perhaps Attention Needed To Be Deflected From Those Problems. It Sometimes Seems That The U.s. Economy Works Successfully Only If It Gets A Stimulus From The Defense Industry. So Perhaps In Addition To Showing The Power And The Might Of The United States Internationally, Another Reason Was To Help The Defense Industry And To Help The U.s. Economy Recover.