Since I've stirred up the pot in comments on other blogs, I might as well post a few comments on my own.

I still find it amazing that after some some 60+ years on this planet, I fail to understand how blowing up other peoples stuff is a solution to one's problems. If mankind would expend the same amount of brain power and energy in meaningfull dialog with other people, we would not need(poor choice of a word) to destroy their lives and stuff. All this Middle East, Kashmir, Iraq etc. etc. goings on seem to be garnered from pre-school antics of four year olds. Maturity and understanding has not taken hold. The world's conflicts stem in large part from the bully antics that we see in elementary school and never gets solved on a personal level. I suppose the question is WHY. Why is violence the method and the answer? Violence seems to be the method, but it is not the answer to anything.