[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Ammi, I was thinking along those same lines, but a bit broader... we actually can do something about our impact, and it's to look at our country and our individual externalities.

For example, companies that do business in countries where poverty and famine runs rampant... is it really right that we go in and grab up all their resources on the cheap while people are starving? And while I'm sure we do charity work there... does it really make up for our environmental and socio-economical impact?...

Globalism has had ill effects around the world, I'm sure. It's just it's not covered in the media and it's considered to be an "unfortunate" side effect... but there are a lot of things like this that are done so that we can have cheap products and services.

I think part of the reason the Iraq war became unpopular as well is because we've become more conscious of these externalities. Smaller military operations seem to be tolerated here, but not large operations like taking over a country and running it... unless it's really justified.