By Kathy Kelly

A Quaker once asked George Fox, “When will we know when it’s time to put down the sword?” “Friend,” he answered, “Thou wilt know when thou canst no longer pick it up.”

In the past year, we’ve witnessed rising clamor, worldwide, to pick up newer, better and more terrible swift swords. This week, thousands of separate stories tell the horror of displacement, wreckage and privation endured by Kosovans and Serbs during 7 weeks of bombardment and siege. The world seems at least to listen.