Originally Posted by: PonyOne after your dad is imprisoned for nothing and beaten to near death, your sister is raped, your friends are killed because someone decided to fire a tank round into an apartment building because there are suspected militants in it, are you going to feel much empathy for these people??? no, and all it takes is some religious nut who steps in, who tells you what you want to hear... you agree with him, you are willing to fight for what you believe in, what he has taught you... now there is no more humanity, there is only you, and them.

so you go and blow up a school/bus/mall/plane/hospital/etc, becuase they're all evil pigs. the people who survive are driven to insanity and decide that they must get vengance, so they go to chechna and rape, murder, etc. the cycle continues. more people die.

Precisely - and that is exactly why war on terror will not work. I guess it requires more balls than anyone on this planet actually has to break this diabolical cycle.
i dont realy see an end to all this. i see big wars coming. and i only see hope when mankind is reduced into almost nothingness so that those who remain will learn from their faults and make it better.
i hope some day we will evolve beyond the need for revenge at any cost. as much as technology has developed during the past centuries, as little has the human mind.