I found this piece full of nonsense. It’s like the old pre 1913 celebration of Belle Epoque, just first the great bloodbath of I world war: they did celebrate an era of positivistic enlightment and neverending progress and civilization. They were blatantly wrong. As you are, first, that’s just the tip of the iceberg, your statistic don’t count violence related to poverty and exclusion. Just in Brazil die 55.000 people per year due to criminal assaults. A little, undeclared, unformal war, but war. You underestimate the consuming resources and the rise up of new dictatorship (Egypt, Turkey, Libya, and so on…). There are thousand of reasons to say: no, the best of war is yet to come.