The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.