“The world has had enough war. One of the things we have learned over the years, regardless of the region of the world, is that wars can’t resolve differences.”

Chuck Hagel, US Secretary of “Defense”, speaking in Malaysia, while his regime makes a major naval shift to the Pacific rim and while his government spends almost as much on weaponry as the entire rest of the world combined – a government that has probably engaged in more wars than any other in recent decades.