Friday the Thirteenth of this month the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced. Do I believe in omens? No. Well, a little. Enough to make me squeamish about this date. But then again, what is the outlook for peace, anyway. On the one hand, the peace thermometer seems to be rising (a good sign) in Uganda and Sudan (but not Darfur) but it's frozen since the nuclear test in N. Korea. To mix my metaphor, you push war down in one place and it pops up in another.
The headline that struck me today was "US unwilling to ban guns despite plague of school shootings" (AFP Press service). Perhaps we could re-word that to read "World unwilling to ban guns despite plague of everywhere shootings." What a dream, banning guns worldwide....
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