"...they somehow are more knowledgeable as to human nature than anyone else." Ebbie

"...But I know it's much easier to believe that only people who are very different from us enlightened people in the West could possibly do something like this.

"Interesting that you say your knowledge of "human nature" prevents the possibility that people from this country could be responsible. I guess that means you don't think of those you believe are guilty as human beings? Or maybe you don't see the people who committed genocide in Rwanda as human beings? Or the Nazis, or the Communists, or any of the other multitude of people who have committed crimes against humanity? Only people in the US are human beings, and therefore governed by your idea of "human nature"?

"And what about the people who lynched Black people in the US south, or the people who owned and/or traded in slaves? How about the people who committed genocide on the indigenous people of what is now the US? Were they not human beings, Ebbie? " Carol C

Carol C, you are insane.