In remarks before a room full of doctors, veteran newsman Walter Cronkite complained that humans "still believe the way to settle arguments is to kill each other."
"There's something flawed about us as human beings if we cannot come to an understanding that that is no solution at all. It is uncivilized. It is immoral," he said.
The 83-year-old former CBS News anchorman appeared over the weekend at the annual gala of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and the Medical Alumni Association.
"I had to think more about the millennium than anyone as the world's oldest reporter," Cronkite quipped, drawing laughs from the crowd. "I think the Bosnians made a documentary and beat a path to my door and wanted to know the history of the century — like I had been there or something."