[Zeno]

Terrorism is a constant. A lesson from History that almost all ignore.

As to particulars in this lasted round of exchanges amongst new and old friends, all sides use terror as a weapon, whether state sponsored, by group affiliation, or as an individual act of a lone person. This salient fact is ignored by those that wish to push a certain agenda that they are married to and to engage in propagandist messages that feed some deep seated need to feel morally superior to everyone else because they adhere to a position of defending the "underdog" and thus reap the high ground of self- induced virtue - A nice round hypothesis that may or may not be justifiably applied to many posters on this forum.

Anyway this latest round of killings and atrocities should escalate, and since more internecine conflict is forthcoming, more people will likely die and any resolution to this intractable conflict will simply be extended into the unforeseeable future. And death and destruction is in the future for all concerned. And deservedly so.

-Zeno