[Quix]

UNDERSTANDING

IS

*******NOT*******

EQUAL

TO

JUSTIFICATION OR EXCUSING SOMETHING.

[kattracks]

You're right. Understanding is a good thing. So let's all go nuts trying to understand a group of people who defy understanding. Then let's grind them into the ground.

[DB]

That "understanding" is brutally simple. The want to kill you because of what you believe and effects of what you believe on the surrounding world.

It is good to be able to identify those who want to kill you and to be able to predict their behavior if at all possible. Beyond that it soon becomes a waste of resources.

Did we need to understand Nazism or Japanese kamikazes to defeat them? I hope to never be able to fully "understand" either of these in my lifetime.

If you want to get down to it, is it possible to understand why someone killed your daughter? Is it possible to "understand" insanity and/or evil?

This isn't a trade dispute…

Just my opinion...