If the Nations of the Earth Made New Year's Resolutions

    Individuals make New Year's Resolutions; why can't nations? How interesting it would be if they did. Certain Arab nations would set the goal of running the Jews off the face of the earth. Israel would set its goal as doing away with every last Hamas. China would say it is going to bring Taiwan into tighter subjection. Russia would seek to obliterate Ukraine. 
   Reading through the list of New Year's resolutions the nations would make, we see they do not have the noblest of aspirations. There's so much goodwill, and here we are just a week removed from Christmas.
   If the nations of the world did write New Year's resolutions, they would write them not with pens and pencils, but with guns and missiles. They would not be in ink, but in blood.