| Comment | Yeah, I understand. The thing that stresses me out a out this is history.
It's like people think that World War Two began with Hitler magically enthralling the German population. They forget that the Euro nations basically got together and fucked Germany completely with the Treaty of Versailles as "recompense" for World War One, until the people were desperate enough to follow a lunatic who could give them a glint of hope.
Or how ISIS rose to power because we "saved" the religious mountain tribes, but didn't care about stabilising the country or supporting the people, and then went on to topple Saddam Hussein but didn't think to stick around and make sure the country got back on its feet.
History has shown that black and white thinking, revenge and working with selfish political interests only ever breeds contempt and creates these monsters, and we've built another one I Hamas.
If we only stopped thinking eye-for-an-eye and started trying to care about _why_ violence happened, maybe we could stem the tide before it gets worse. |
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