Some people agree with me on this, and others just don't seem to want to acknowledge it, but every time an event of this fashion occurs, I find myself always asking the question - are we addressing the root causes of this conflict?
Of course, it's not always easy. People's families are hurt or killed, world's are turned upside down, and nearly everyone, understandably of course, is hell bent on concentrating their anguish and hatred onto a common group of people - these specimens we have come to know as 'terrorists'.
Now, I need to emphasise that the people who carry out acts of terrorism are of course led on by hatred and fanaticism, and are unfeeling in many many ways. What they do is completely amoral, and affects untold amounts of innocent people.
But just for a second, imagine say, if you were a Muslim, or you had family out in Iraq or Afghanistan, and every day you see scenes of your home country being turned into ashes, people of your creed and race being slaughtered, or perhaps many of your family have been killed. People you grew up as an innocent child with, in a life you just wanted to live, without interference from other 'good-to-do' countries. Where do you turn to?
I'm just generally trying to convey the point that these 'terrorists', while of course being frighteningly barbaric in their acts and in using violence against innocent people, are doing it for a reason. They did not simply decide one day they despised western countries for no apparent reason, and subsequently decided to wreack havoc on them. They have suffered, and they want payback, just like all the poor families today who lost loved ones will certainly want payback. But is this vicious circle really the way forward? Are we too deep into this exchange that it's too late for a political leader to step up and say "you know, ALOT of people aren't going to like this, but for the future of world peace...I think we may have been wrong in doing what we did." If we follow this "hate vs. hate" pattern of affairs, is it all just going to 'end' one day? Are we going to reach a resolution? I think not. Unless you like living in a dangerous world.
So in conclusion, I'd just try to walk a mile in the "'enemy's" shoes whenever you see an event like this, hard as it may be. I certainly acknowledge that if one of my family today were killed in the bombings, I almost 100% certain wouldn't be thinking like this due to the same reasons as the poor souls who have lost loved ones. But we've got to see the bigger picture sooner or later. Surely?