I completely agree with both Joe and Amos.

Listen, I'm sure this has been said again and again-but do you really think that if all the occupation forces were pulled out of Iraq today, and the Mideast was somehow finally able to come to a peace agreement, (I'll stop with just those two for now) that fanatics would stop hating and stop wanting to seek vengence, if not for the present, but for the past wrongs perpetrated?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if it were possible to accede to every one of the demands ever made by any terrorist group out there, I don't think it would stop the violence. The only thing that would most likely happen is that new grievances would be found, and new enemies discovered.

I hate that which is in our species which is capable of such violence, but not to recognize it as something so deeply ingrained that there has hardly been a time in our history where people weren't finding reasons to fight and kill each other would be the height of folly.

-Ellen