Divisions in the US so troubling and disheartening. Where are we headed? War has become a business model a “first option” (as Biden said), not a strategic option, and its culture has blown back into our domestic life. January 6 was supposed to happen in Hong Kong. Our entrenched values celebrate violence (Hollywood TV, video games) and need to be reformed. The Economist is publishing Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy. Freely Issuing threats and sanctions has worsened our international position; the over-funded war machine should be scaled back. Making so many enemies is against our national interest, anti-strategic, and has left us not China isolated.