I wonder what it must be like to be a young person today. When I read the articles about Al Qaeda, I think that the terror for a young person must be immense. Since I can relate to cancer, I find a parallel between terrorism and cancer. With cancer the enemy is the cancer cells within your body. You don't know where or when these cells are or how they're going to attack you. With global terrorism, the enemy is some other person. You don't know who, and you don't know how or when they're going to attack.
Fortunately for normal healthy people, the probability of being hit by a terrorist is maybe one in a million, as opposed to cancer patients where the probability is orders of magnitude higher. Still, I think the forced confrontation with your own mortality must be very similar. I was against the Iraqi invasion 10 years ago.
Today, being a buddhist in spiritual beliefs, I wish politicians could find ways to work together instead of resolving their problems through force and bloodshed. I can imagine the political machinery that is firmly entrenched from decades and decades of prejudice and conflict and how impossible it must be to fight. Are we on our way to annihilation?
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