War Has Always Prevailed Over Peace

Here is an interesting essay by S. Brian Willson:

There have been 8,400 Historical Treaties for Peace, [from] 1500 BC to 2013 AD
(average 2.4 treaties per year)

There have been 14,600 Wars over the past 5,600 years (average of 2.6 per year)

[Peace] treaties are, in effect, Panglossian pacts. Pangloss was a fictional character in Voltaire’s 1759 novel Candide relentlessly expressing optimism despite great suffering. Panglossian has come to mean being blindly or naively optimistic despite the circumstances or realities.

http://www.brianwillson.com/the-failure-of-peace-treaties/

You may not recognize his name, but this Brian Willson was the man who tied himself to railroad tracks in 1987 to protest an armaments train but who lost his legs when the train failed to stop:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Willson

I think it's a general rule that lawyers who help We The People suffer and/or remain poor, while lawyers who help bankgangsters, corporations, and their accomplices in the one percent thrive and become wealthy (e.g., Hillary Rodham [a.k.a. Clinton to some of you]).