We are all in this together, people are people and we are fools to believe that we are not all the same. NOT.

The following is from a website that will warm cockels of a radical liberal's heart . For all their criticizm of the U.S. the writer seems to understand that people can be "numbed".

Young boys-many of them orphans-who grew up in those times, had guns for toys, never knew the security and comfort of family life, never experienced the company of women. Now, as adults and rulers, they beat, stone, rape and brutalize women; they don't seem to know what else to do with them. Years of war have stripped them of gentleness, inured them to kindness and human compassion. They dance to the percussive rhythms of bombs raining down around them. Now they've turned their monstrosity on their own people.

NUMBED