Reality is a concept which each individual has to conceptualize for him or herself. What we perceive as reality is in truth the combined essence of our experiences during our journey through this thing called life. In plainer words the sum of our experiences is our perception of reality.   A child who is raised in Ontario Canada can never understand the reality which the Palestinian child has to endure as a daily fact of life. Just like the child from Riyadh Saudi Arabia can never see the world through the eyes of the child from Georgia the United States.   All of us, ever one on this planet has a different and unique perception of what is their own part of reality. We are raised to view certain acts in a different light. A child raised in the Middle East where the value on human life is dictated by the circumstances in which you live can never have the same values as a child raised in the relative safety of Middle America or Europe.   When the suffering of one group of people (Palestinians) is perceived to be ignored by another group of similar thinking people (Muslims) and all they can see is a military occupation (by Western Nations) of their Nation (The Nation of Islam) with much detriment and no real betterment by the people who ignore their plight (the western nations), then you can only expect hatred, resentment and distrust from the ones you seem to refuse to help (Muslims). So what is the world to do? You can’t just wipe everything clean and start over again. That would be illogical to even think that something like that could ever take place. My own personal perception of the world on one hand based in the reality that situational politics dictates and on the other it is based on the concept of helping ones fellow citizen of earth, regardless of political strip or religious persuasion. The love of our fellow man should be color blind and universal, but alas in this day and age the almighty dollar has to be pursued at any cost, regardless of human life.   When I really try to perceptuallize the world through the eyes of someone different than myself I try my best to understand what the reality that they have been raised in is. I feel that only in this fashion can I truly understand the motivation behind the act. In this way I have come to understand one thing. In the east what terrorists do makes sense to a fairly large audience in Muslim nations.   Nations and religions of the west have never fully understood the nation of Islam and consequently as with most humans fear of the unknown or misperceived has led to countless confrontations both intellectually and militarily through history.   As an example, in the current conflict in Afghanistan and other parts of the Middle East the Americans try to fight a military war against an elusive and fluid enemy, an enemy which can melt right into the background. An enemy that finds shelter and help in the local populace, while the nations of the west have to use coercion and military action against the populous. The United States in particular also fights a war against drugs while fighting the Taliban. Some American senior officials have even come out in public and said that the United States needs a different drug eradication policy.   Now I can fully understand the dirt poor farmer in the outback of Afghanistan or any other country in that region. They really don’t care about who is fighting who and over what. They see their traditional way of life that has existed for centuries being put through upheaval not of their making. They see an occupying military force. It doesn’t matter if it is Russian or American. Must of the population have been raised in nothing but warfare, because the conflicts within this country have continued for centuries. All the poor farmer wants to do is feed his family and hopefully get to see his children grow up and have families of their own. In his part of the world life itself is always a gamble.   If I were the American government I would take a serious look at this suggestion as a major drug policy change. Why not pay the farmers more than the Taliban and narcotrafficantes do for their raw drug products? Buying the opium, cocaine, hashish and marijuana at source would be a very effective way to give the farmers a better standard of life and the governments can just destroy the drugs after they have been purchased. This would effectively eliminate a major source of income to an enemy that is hard to target. The savings on interdiction and crop burning and incarceration, not to mention the savings in military expenditure and police enforcement would be staggering. The potential savings to the western nations would be in the hundreds of billions with reductions of police and military budgets due to a decreased presence of drugs, a reduced footprint of terrorism due to reduced funding for it and a reduction in drug trafficking both nationally and internationally. No supply, no product. No product no customers. No customers no money! By bringing the standard of living up for the grass roots people the western nations would gain a certain amount of respect from the Nation of Islam and globally. At present the western world is viewed as a greedy untrustworthy place by the rest of the world. Why else would there be so much hatred toward it?   If this new policy on drug intervention were used as a building block to put more intelligent, less costly solutions into effect to change this worlds problems, then maybe we as the human race can avoid fulfilling the biblical prophecies that we all fear so much.   As far as the other great problem facing our race, the pollution of our planet! Maybe a greater effort should be made toward hydrogen fusion. Once that technology is perfected, then mankind can work on its miniaturization for transportability. The motivation is the same as it was in WWII, the preservation of the human race.