Certain nations and peoples are much more guilty of crimes against humanity than others.

In modern times of the nation state, the most guilty nations have a handful of European states and of course, the US. A few others, like Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan are mere blips on the radar of well orchestrated and exectuted mechanized slaughters of millions of people around the world, including:

1. The Nazi Holocaust;

2. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki;

3. WWI, WWII, and numerous imperial wars carried out by Europeans and European Americans around the globe (which includes Russia and it's "states" exploited by Russia to control a good chunk of the world's oil fields and the resources necessary for the global ruling elite to extract it;

4. The contemporary Judeo-Christian crusades against the Muslim world by the Europeans and Americans, using Israel and Saudi Arabia as regional surrogates, being fought over control of the world's largest oil fields and the resources necessary for global ruling elite to extract it.

I think the question being asked is, who is the great threat to the world and it's societies' safety and stability: terrorists who may or may not have nationalist affiliations, who succeed in killing thousands, or national militaries of the world's most powerful nation states, who succeed in killing millions?

At this juncture in history, at the end of a century of human history's most obscene era of violence perpetrated by nation states who are responsible for developing technologically advanced weapons of war which resulted (and still continues today) in the mechanized slaughter of millions of innocent human beings, that question is a profoundly important one to be asking.

Or more simply, we should be asking: which is the greater crime against humanity, Dresden or 9/11?

Note I am not asking which one of those two atrocities constitutes a crime against humanity, as both do. The question is, which crime against humanity is greater?

The answer has to do with who has access to and controls the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Answer: it isn't the Muslim terrorists.