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I agree, but the problem is, you're assuming this particular group of people are governed by logic and reason, like those Ukrainians. They aren't. They are governed by a religion that flouts logic and reason...no, PUNISHES logic and reason. We have been wearing the white hat as far as our handling of the middle east is concerned for a good while, now, and what has happened? Is there less terrorism, or MORE, today, than 50 years ago?
Define insanity.
1. You're assuming people there are different from people here. If you've spent years traveling this world and knew what it was like to live in another nation with a very different culture - as I have - then you'd know that while individual personalities vary wildly, as a whole, people really are the same all over the world. We all have - after adjusting for differences in cultures and traditions - pretty much the same wants, same needs, same goals.
2. You're thinking there's more terrorism now than before...but what you're not getting is that the ONLY reason you're hearing so much more about terrorism now is because of modern mass media and the internet. Start digging into history, and you'll find something that you'll NEVER hear in conservative media: after adjusting for population, the past 20 years have been the most peaceful twenty years in recorded human history.
Yep - that's right! When it comes to war and terrorism, AFTER we take population into account, humanity's had it better for the past 20 years than ever before. Ever.
Go ahead and try to prove me wrong. Feel free - any twenty-year period in human history you care to name. Go for it.