Bravo for doing something other than complain, like most of us are doing. In terms of who else to invite: the presidents of France, Germany and Turkey or their representative in the National Security Counsel might be good. Clearly none of them want war but they are all being pressured to back our rush to war for different and obvious reasons. My guess is that France will cave and then perhaps the rest and GW will get his resolution and do his worst. It would be very interesting 25 years hence to know more about the very difficult position these other major players find themselves in.

How will we look back on this? Well, first of all, let's hope someone is around to look back on this. I hope we'll look back on it as a time when the wasteful dependence on fossil fuel by a superpower combined with a civilizations whose primary infastructures are predicated on unbridled growth and short-term results blinded us to the simple principle: we=them. Killing, poverty, pollution and ignorance no matter how concentrated, no matter how small, affects all life on the planet.

My personal fantasy would be to lock George Bush, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Arial Sharon, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in a small prison cell together for the next 25 years, with no books, TV or other forms of distraction.