&gt; your naive words about peaceful living would sound like a bullshit to them<p>I understand the reasoning (but please dial back the tone), but I think it&#x27;s wrong:<p>First, peace is often made by those same people who survive war and other horrors. The great modern institutions of international peace were built by the survivors of WWII (and WWI before it), people who saw far more and were far less naive than you or me. The foundations of the European Union were established by the same survivors, whose friends and relative were killed and brutalized by other EU members. Martin Luther King and his followers were brutalized by their white neighbors, yet they preached peace. Perhaps it&#x27;s the people who have seen war who feel the greatest need for peace and understand what it takes.<p>Second, do you have any basis for speaking for the people in Syria and Iraq? Research? Do you live there?