Description: An ounce of prevention at home and abroad.

Transcript:

Well the big issues are the whole issue of global peace. I mean I think that’s one of the most important thing. I mean I’m a scientist and a physician, and that’s not my area; but it just seems to me that the destruction, and the death, and the threat, and the insecurity that goes along with people who are ideologically at such odds that it leads to destruction, and death, and killing. To me, that is a major issue. I’m sure there will always be wars; but I think we need to try as best as we can to understand what it is about people who are such at odds with us that they wish us harm; as well as analyze are we doing anything ourselves that are putting us at such odds with other people that we’re instigating this clash of cultures. It’s no news to anybody. You just pick up the newspaper any day, you see another example of conflict throughout the world. And that’s something that we’ve gotta pay a lot of attention to and do what we can . . . be it the Middle East problems, or the Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Iran, other nations. The Cold War which then warmed up, which is now getting back to a cold war. It’s kind of discouraging.

Recorded On: 7/6/07