If you are worried your kids will leave your crazy faith, make sure they never learn anything.

Today at lunch we had a rather vigorous discussion of terrorism, war, etc. I may be a little too sensitive (and thus ill-suited for military leadership) but I find any talk of violent conflict to be highly disturbing. I often find myself wishing that people would just “be cool” rather than reacting to evil in the world with more evil. For example, it seems that Israel has gone of the cliff and the two sides of the conflict will never be reconciled because they have lost any sense of the humanity of their opponents. When we reach a point (as many here have with the muslim world) that we think the only solution is violence how do you turn back?