&gt; People who saw what war is didn&#x27;t want to see it again. But people today are other generation.<p>I suspect the same thing. Many in the US and elsewhere in the West since 9&#x2F;11 have been quick to embrace violence, as well as the scourges that brought earlier wars: Nationalism, racial and religious prejudice, etc. What happened to the norms that said these things are dangerous? Is it that the generation who experienced the consequences has died out, and now we are ignorant again? Is that why history repeats? A lesson learned lasts no longer than a generation? How depressing.<p>I also wonder if I am merely remembering a golden age that never existed. Certainly during the Cold War many bad, hateful things happened.<p>&gt; I still think words about peaceful living from western countries won&#x27;t reach people in Middle Asia.<p>Remember the idea that the generation of WWII knew about war and peace, and our generation has forgotten. Perhaps the current generation in the Mideast is the one that knows, far better than we do, about war and peace.