I feel for all those that have needlessly died because of the actions of evil, sick, twisted, cruel, hateful people. I agree that people should protect themselves and those they care about from those that would do them harm. On a global scale, the good people should defend against evil... no question. My point is not that it is unacceptable ok to do so, but rather that people need to be honest about it. You can not claim to be a religious person if you go against the teachings of that religion. PERIOD. You can be a good person, and still have to defend your family. You can be a good person, and still drive a tank in the army or drop 500lb smart bombs on the bad guys. You can NOT do any of that, and still claim to be Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. When "religious" people admit this, there will not be any more "religious" extremism and far fewer reasons to go to war. The chants of "God is great", and all the other rhetoric will be replaced by "we are psycho nutjobs", "death to anyone even SLIGHTLY different from us", or "yeah, most of the stuff in our holy book is outrageously demented, but nevermind that, just join us anyway" and bingo... not nearly as good of a sales pitch for the cause.