I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.
That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar. . . Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?