Read the Room.

We're so busy, all of us?, providing for our own that we don't take time to think:

Waiting to be fed in wartime Gaza. 21st century photo. Wapo.

What kind of secure future will a country make for itself living next to people so desperate to live like this? 

You shouldn't be kneecapping your neighbors, and their children, believing that (is) the final solution to your own misery amongst the riches...

You should be lifting them, educating them, and advising them. Turning the other cheek if they spit upon you even;  taking in kind from what assaults are meted out to you:  "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", no more, no less...

Instead, in these "every-man's-a-Kissinger!" days, we proudly boast of bleeding the other guys' teams out -- cackling like a Hillary Clinton over the Russian Army deaths, even as the number of Ukrainian conscripts dwindle... they boast "not a single American life was lost!" as though the Slavic Ukrainian Russian class of men don't count for U.S. accounting purposes...

There's a bigger way of life, of course. One not reliant on the technology and military hardware of the early 21st century, when our way of allocating resources more and more has our eldest "leaders", but not necessarily wisest political minds, more and more dependent on the whims of the wealthy "dreamers", promising technologies that whisk us away to Mars if only we survive here on Earth the messes being made in our name today.

God help us.