I read through my post again to make sure I didn't make any huge errors as I was very tired at the time, and thought it could use an explanation as to why I used unrelated topics to make a point.

Ultimately, religious conditioning has a similar affect as any other abusive conditioning (I'm not saying all religious conditioning is dysfunctional, but there are obviously more visible examples of the bad.) In America and alot of Europe, we have an Evangelistic movement, which are part of many denominations of the Church. In just about every part of the world, there are religious movements as well, respectively.

Of course, we're not talking about *healthy* religious conditioning when we're talking about violent extremists (Or maybe that's my Western thinking to call it unhealthy.) but it's still a matter of conditioning (and maybe too much sun exposure) that a religious sect believes all enemies are infidel combatants who need to die: even their innocent children.

Child abuse is a very visible example to use when explaining the affects of conditioning, and that's why I used it, especially since Lebeau hinted at it. Although it's an entirely separate subject, and I apologize for that. But the mind in the east functions the same way as the mind in the west - the real difference is societal and, in this case, religious conditioning.

As I explained in my last post, conditioning can be undone. I used race as an example because it was (is?) a very pervasive and visible topic.

Ultimately, my point is that war and murder don't solve these things. Just like the thinking of religious extremists destroying Americans is going to undo our evil, and American retaliation is going to snuff that thought out. Someone didn't set a variable to exit the loop here, considering that both actions seem to draw more fervor for each cause. At some point, behavior needs to be altered. I personally believe that child murderer's behavior needs to change, so I find myself (as a westerner) to be in the right in this case. I don't think it's a matter perception, though: killing children should be the highest of wrongs in all regions of the world (maybe it is?). We won't see peace in this issue until behaviors change, and that could be one peace loving (LSD driven) generation away, or it could be a hundred, two hundred or more years from now.

So it's not only a game of cat and mouse warfare, which may be completely necessary, it's -also- a game of wait and see, and hoping that tolerance is adopted by extremists for the sake of preserving precious life (precious to all Gods?). To discount the necessity of altering behavior is a long, slow suicide.

Thanks again for reading another long post.