I agree with you. Conflict is always seen abstractly to take place between two or more "forces". "Peoples" not "people". And indeed the groups in conflict see i

I agree with you. Conflict is always seen abstractly to take place between two or more "forces". "Peoples" not "people". And indeed the groups in conflict see it as an issue of categories, and broadly direct revenge and attack against a conceived organization of people fitting some number of characteristics that are in some way attached to the original concept and reason for killing. As a Westerner, to once again place blame on an abstract group for causing "themselves" to be raped and murdered is ludicrous, it is actually baffling. Women are being raped and children are being burned alive-- not only Women and Children, but this woman, and this child. They have names, they are not categories, although for one reason or another there are complicated threads and fabrics of history attached to their probabilistic genealogical history. I don't know what can be done. This conflict makes me sick.