>Perhaps because scholarly research into the last five or so decades of conflicts has shown that politics is the main cause of violence...
How could you possibly trust "research" into the minds of millions of people? Doesn't your bullshit detector even twitch a little when you read something like that?
Well, I subscribe to this quaint notion that people mean what they say unless there's a solid reason to believe otherwise. The advantage being I don't have to pretend I can figure out what really motivates them. I just listen. The 20th century would have been a lot nicer if the people in charge had done the same.
How could you possibly trust "research" into the minds of millions of people? Doesn't your bullshit detector even twitch a little when you read something like that?