I agree with both of your posts here.  Firstly, in modern terms, it is extremely sad.  When you can set up a small satelite dish in a  mountaious region of Pakistan and get your message out, or use the technology of video, or cell phone, (How do they get a signal there?), the fact that most communication is done in seconds or days now, not months and years, it is extremely sad that these techs are not employed for more useful purposes.  An education can be had in any part of the world it would seem, as long as you can get line of sight to a satelite and the relatively cheap gear to communicate.

My point here, is instead of seeing more and more violence bred out of ignorance.  Shouldn't we be seeing less and less because of said ignorance?  How long does the Human population of this planet tolerate the rule of fear over education?

I should be much for open Warr, O Peers,

As not behind in hate;......

........

Whenhe who most excels in fact of Arms,

In what he counsels and in what excels

Mistrustful, grounds his courage on dispare

And utter dissolution, as the scope

Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.

First, what Revenge? the Towrs of Heav'n are fill'd

With Armed watch, that render all access

Impregnable; oft on the bordering Deep

Encamp thir Legions, or with obscure wing

Scout farr and wide into the Realm of night,

Scorning surprize. Or could we break our way

By force, and at our heels all Hell should rise

With blackest Insurrection, to confound

Heav'ns purest Light, yet our great Enemie

All incorruptible would on his Throne

Sit unpolluted, and th' Ethereal mould

Incapable of stain would soon expel

Her mischeif, and purge off the baser fire

Victorious.   ......

Belial speaking at the confrence where Fallen Angels deside to terrorize the human kind (John Milton, Paradize Lost)

This shows that terorism is nto a function of violence, but rather of enequality.

By the way, the gasoline tax cut being proposed by Populists is a reverse poison pill

Cheaper gas price=more gasoline consumption=faster transfer of wealth to Arab hands=poorer america faster=less life jackets for soldiers=more money available for IED's

On the other hand this tax stifels consumption, which moderates consumption, which lowers transfer of wealth, which lets new generations of arabs to grow up wealthy, which means they will moderate in the long run & not blow up their newfound wealth on IED's w/in this generation.

Ok maybe it is a direct poison pill, but reverse poison pill sounds way cooler.