About an hour ago, I turned on the TV to find out that there had been a series of seven explosions throughout London. Terrorists, of course. As I sat here watching Tony Blair speak, Pres. George W. Bush to his right, Pres. Jacques Chirac to his left, I saw the leaders of three countries who seem to be perpetually at odds with one another on many political fronts. Yet, as Tony Blair spoke and I observed the expressions of the two presidents behind him, somehow knowing what they were thinking, or at least knowing what they wanted the world to think they were thinking, I got a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. Yet again, political adversaries were joined by human tragedy, a "barbaric act" imposed on them by their common enemy. Indeed, an enemy which does not show favor to anyone or any country in this world.

My thoughts began to broaden. This keeps happening. Why are they doing this? What do they want? What did this accomplish? They don't say… They have formulated their own little "religion," their own little brotherhood, I could say. It is a brotherhood which is not based on religion, not based on culture, not based on gender, nationality, race, but on some ideology they themselves have fabricated. I can't figure out what their goal is, but it has become clear that no one country, nation or group/category of people will be shown mercy or favor by this brotherhood. The network of their brotherhood has infiltrated everywhere in this world - there are no safe corners left.

I thought to myself, the earth needs an extraterrestrial mediator to solve this planet-wide war. I wanted to ask them in the brotherhood, what do they want? Why do they keep killing people and without prejudice to race, religion, gender, nation...? I realized that their actions have made or will eventually make every citizen of earth a victim and enemy to them and that animosity will grow in and spread to those who are more or less neutral, until not even the willful striving for civil behavior, self-control and upkeep of humanity can contain it, and thus, anyone who may currently be capable of impartiality will cease to be partial.

It is also a misconception that Muslims are, by definition, part of this terrorist brotherhood. If you think a Muslim or Muslims (Arab/Arabs) stand behind this brotherhood, just wait until a member of that Muslim's family becomes a victim of the brotherhood, as has been happening as a regular occurrence in Iraq. You would think that this brotherhood would at least care to save the citizens they consider their own. At this stage in world affairs, there is no longer an excuse for the ignorance of thinking that Muslims/Arabs as a group comprise this terrorist brotherhood. The brotherhood does not save Muslims/Arabs in their terrorist acts, because Muslims/Arabs, as a group, are not part of the brotherhood.

I think to myself, if I could just ask them what they want, what they are achieving... When I look at the reality and the results to deduce their goals, it seems their goal must specifically be to repeatedly outsmart the rest of the world, powerful leaders and politicians, by covertly plotting ways of mass-killing citizens without getting caught in the process, like a live computer war game, and the death toll is like the score. This is what appears to be the intention of the brotherhood and the reason for its existence. This is the logical conclusion when you look at the results, because this outsmarting is the precise and sole result from the terrorist acts, with the added byproduct of the perpetuation of an eternal and ever-descending spiral into retaliatory hell (part of the game, I guess).

When all is said and done, after all these years of mass killings, if the terrorist brotherhood were not getting the results they wanted and finding the gratification they seek through their actions, they would change their actions.

Well...with that in mind, maybe mediation, extraterrestrial or otherwise, will not provide any solution.