I am headed toward Florida as my country heads toward war with Iraq. Protests rage around the world, but I do not join the protesters with their “No blood for oil” signs. Every year I’ve been alive, there has been war somewhere. At the beginning of 2003 there were thirty wars being fought around the world. We fight with our families, our neighbors, the natural world — and yet we expect peace. We will not “give peace a chance,” not this year, or the next, or the one after that. As valiant as protesting war is, I’m beginning to liken it to Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”