I read this today and thought it made allot of sense...

"We all have the same dark secrets and the same bright hopes. We come from the same place and are headed in the same direction. Above everything else maybe, we all want to be known by each other and to know each other. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A., the Arabs and the Israelis, the terrorists and the terrized-we are all of us brothers all of us sisters. Yet from the way we manage things most of the time, who in a million years would ever guess it? Who can remain unmoved by the thought of how the world might be if we only managed things right?"

-from "Whistling In The Dark - A Doubters Dictionary" by Fredrick Buechner