Beating Swords into ploughshares

The United Nations mandate to turn the world to the better is looking sad. Thanks to the four horseman at the center, China, the U.S., Russia and France, military arms are proliferative throughout the freeworld. What is the sign of Iraqi freedom, the AK47! Same in Africa see the Lord of War. If we are supposedly trying to root out evil in the world, perhaps we should try another method, does every push toward freedom have to start with an ethnic cleansing, is that how people will learn in these impoverished nations, first kill, suffer, and then deal with our world where resources go primarily to the wealthy.