I can not see giving anyone that kills humans by cutting of heads, body parts, Blowing people up and degrading females any respect what so ever. Or anyone who kills for no apparent reason.
Just because your human does not mean you should get respect, respect is earned.
King... I agree wholeheartedly. Respect is earned. Every human deserves to be treated with dignity. Respect is something else.
However... Using the examples you gave... Some of our troops too deserve no respect. We certainly also blow people up. Our machinery of war certainly dismembers body parts and cuts off heads. Sure... We might not use a knife to do it (at least not ourselves, sending them to Uzbekistan and paying other people to do it is a different story), but a decapitated head is a decapitated head. War Is Not Fun.
Slipknot... You'd probably be surprised to learn that I agree with you on a lot of points. My main issue is that the world is not made of blacks and whites. All is shades of gray.
Pure, large-scale socialism certainly does not work. Though the USSR never really achieved true socialism (and certainly came no where near communism), it did give it a solid try and failed. Flaws in the theory prevent large-scale socialist "experiments" from ever succeeding (it completely discounts human nature to think of themselves first). Likewise, pure large-scale capitalism also does not work. Left unregulated, wealth tends to beget wealth, which over time causes wealth to accumulate in the hands of the few. You
cannot ignore the underprivileged classes and poor for too long, because there are more of them than there are of the rich (and the poor are typically the ones who make up the rank-and-file of the military). The result is war, terrorism, and revolution. Striking a proper balance, while protecting individual freedom and choice, is of utmost importance.
As far as feeding the hungry?
I think if we want to have a war on an idea, the best way to solve the terrorism problem would be to have a War on Poverty. They'll always make more terrorists than we can kill. Always. You can buy a heck of a lot of food for the cost of even one smart bomb.
The only way to win is to convince them not to become terrorists in the first place. I'm not suggesting we "stop them with hugs". Some respect, understanding, and poverty relief, coupled with a huge stick (and not one that shows how weak and uninformed we really are, as a certain desert escapade has done), might go a long way.