Think 2303. You're a historian looking back ont he 20th and 21st centuries. What happened in 2003? Was the fabled "War on Terrorism" the last act in the great wars of humanity? Did it truly end the conflicts began by the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in 191x?

In some ways everything that is going on now is the mopping up of all the lingering problems from WW's I and II and the Cold War (WWIII?). The WW's created the Cold War, and the Cold War created Arab tyrannies, filled their warehouses with foreign bought arms, and filled their pocketbooks with gold from the oil sales to the US and USSR, in their race to beat each other. Now we're finally cleaning up the mess we created. Afterwards what will the world be like? We may be seeing changes far more important than the fall of the Iron Curtain. We may be seeing the end of an era, and the start of a new one, hopefully a peaceful one.