The world is stunned by the barbaric wave of terrorist violence exemplified by the bombing in Oklahoma City, the bombing in the World Trade Center in New York City, the nerve gas attack in Tokyo, the gruesome bombings in Israel and Lebanon and Northern Ireland and England and Bosnia and Central America...
Has it not occurred to thinking people that this spread of terrorist violence may likely be a spin-off of the "sanctification of mass-slaughter" of human beings by the nations in their wars with one another to settle their political disputes?
These actions give a "stamp of respectability" to use nuclear bombs and chemical and biological war-weapons to murder one another en masse.
The spin-off of this official dignification of violence by the nations is the increasing number of terrorist groups who ape their governments' example, not only by causing indiscriminately violent bombings, but are now beginning to consider the use of nuclear weapons and germ warfare as part of their terrorist campaigns.
Shouldn't nations set the example by using legal methods to settle conflicts instead of military methods, world courts instead of world battlefields?