but by no means the definitive word about the right or wrong of the war. I was struck by the fact that Yon witnesses an event which features tortured and mutilated bodies of children and can see only the good of a mission that might just be implicit in inciting the violence that led to their deaths.

Oh, so maybe AQ was forced to kill those people, not because they're animals, but because our forces came to fight them.

kquote>That same warrior brain simply does not allow the gray that always emanates from human interaction. The perpetrators of those horrific deeds simply sprang from the Devil's seed. There was nothing in their life experiences that would've driven a man from any cultural background to turn into such a savage despite numerous accounts from our own history of incredible injustice and mayhem by descendants of the guys that now run our country.

So now we must try and understand why they are so misunderstood. Poor poor little freedom fighters, they can't help that they misbehave. They're only acting out because we're over there.