Well I'll try again 
This is caused by a day I'll never forget in my life: Two towers hit by two planes. Thousands of people dying. Hundreds of people in fear of burning alive jumping out of the towers. It made me cry for hours. And it makes me desperate. What the heck are human beings able to do to other human beings!!!?
I live within blocks of the former "two towers" and was present and on the street on that day. So close I had to run from the clouds of smoke that swept the streets as the buildings fell. I was there because it is my neighborhood. Friends of mine worked in those buildings. I'll never forget the woman, a stranger, who grabbed my hand and gasped when we saw the first human leap from those upper stories. She was sobbing uncontrollably and cried out, "Angel flights. Angel flights."
When the primary horror was over and two days had passed, my neighborhood was cordoned off by police. We had to use passports just to get off and on our blocks. Trucks were not even permitted to bring in food. We, of course, could go out of our area to bring food back in. But city residents outside our immediate area couldn't come in. This lasted for two weeks. Neighbors who had never spoken to me before, smiled, said "Good day," inquired after my health. People held doors for others. Things became beautifully civilized. New Yorkers became thoughtful and kind towards one another.
No one spoke of revenge or reprisals until politicians came onto the scene. I was shocked and so were my friends. Having experienced such horror we just assumed people would now want peace. We assumed that people in the US would want to modify rapacious government policies in the Mideast that had created so much hatred toward us. Try to understand "the enemy's" point of view for a change. The late Susan Sontag wrote of this in The New Yorker and actually received death threats for "colluding with the enemy."
We were wrong about empathy and sympathy. Americans outside of the island of Manhattan wanted revenge. Not compromise or understanding. A country as powerful as this one -- with the nuclear capacity to destroy any country, yes, even the entire planet -- decided to stoop so low as to seek revenge.
Humans, when afraid, will always respond with violence. In fact, fear, I believe, is the single source of all maladaptive behavior. Even something as silly as "greed." Isn't that just the fear of not having enough? And it was fear that politicians used to stir up American anger. Just as Hitler did with Germans in the 1920s over the Russian invasion threat. As long as humans give in to fear there will be cruelty and violence. And fear is wired into our very biology. It's what triggers our defense mechanisms to survive. We are, afterall, animals.
I'm afraid it's rather hopeless, unless you take the individual stance. You, as one person, must behave civilized. What the others do is beyond your control. History bears that out.
Sorry. This is political, I suppose.
Topic: Guantanamo (NO political debates please!)