the arm with the recent u.s./indian nuclear arguments, a sharp blow to the nonproliferation treaty. two countries have twice come to nuclear war. it was these developments pose a very serious threat to world peace, even to human survival. well, there s a lot to say about this crisis but no time here. coming back home, whether the deceit here about the monstrous enemy, johnson s case might as well have been sincere. suppose say 50 years ago americans had been given a choice of directing their tax money to development of information technology so that their grandchildren could have ipods and the internet, or else putting the same funds into developing a liveable and sustainable socioeconomic order. well, they might very well have made the latter choice but they had no choice. now, that s standard. there s a striking gap between public opinion and public policy on a host of major issues, domestic and foreign and at least in my judgment, public opinion is often a lot more sane.