My God but this thread is depressing.

Someone makes a film looking into the life of a man most of us know very little about and have no conception of what it would take to drive ourselves to the depth of what he put himself through. Do we watch it and then say "That's what he got wrong, or misunderstood or was deluded by"? No, we air once again our predjudices and dismiss anyone who does not go along with them as part of one or other gang of murdering bastards.

The only way to make this world a safer place is to learn the lessons of our past. Why do young men and women kill themselves and innocent shoppers, bus passengers, office workers? Is it really, as seems to be the suggestion of several posters here that they are are congenitaly "prats" and murderer, that they are born to be terrorists.

If we treat todays "terrorists" and the communities from which they draw support with "complete and utter contempt" will the world become a safer place?

I for one would like a little more insight into how this all works, but then again I have never chosen to be part of any organisation set up to kill "the enemy" so have never had to have a one eyed view of the world.

Finally I think it takes a really perverse view of the world to describe someone who takes part in an action where he has a strong chance of being shot, and then puts himself through the horror of starving to death as a coward, but another man who sits in an office sending hundreds of young men to risk death while slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians as a hero.

Perhaps I'm missing something here. If I am I know I can only find it by looing where I did not look before, not by restating again and again my side righteous heroes, everyone else murdering bastards.