The Cycle of Violence at Purdue Global

A 2009 New York Times article, Soldiers Kill Iraqi Couple during raid at home, is an example of the kind of headlines you might expect to see if this were to happen in the United States. Each little step forward makes everything worse and exacerbates all these tensions that, in calmer times, would fade back down. To the police, everyone would start to look like an enemy. That kind of stress does not make any group of human beings better or more compassionate.