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I will never understand the mentality....let's kill some innocent kids, then they'll give us what we want! Same thing in Israel, it makes zero sense.
And before someone trots out the "they've had children killed too BS" I would say that what kind of mental reject reacts to the death of a child by killing someone else's child?
I sure as hell wouldn't.
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I wouldn't, you wouldn't, probably 99.9% of North Americans would not. Israel and Russia demonstrably do via their military, as do Palestinians and Chechnyans via armed rebels (terrorists if you like) - they are locked in a conflict that actually impacts their lives on a daily and seemingly permanent basis, while we are locked in an ideological debate over what is acceptable to civilized society.
If I understand you correctly, the majority of the people in these areas suffer some sort of mass mental defect that allows them to perform these acts and / or support them if they don't actually participate in the act. After all, guerillas can only really be effective if some substantial portion of the locals support them. I don't buy the argument that these people are somehow defective.
Here is an example from an anthropology class I took quite a long while ago, so hopefully I remember the details properly. Aid workers in a third world country had (or still have?) a hard time convincing mothers to give medicine to their sick children. Rather, the mothers give their medicine to the healthy children based on the belief that the sick children have no hope, and it is far better to concentrate your resources on healthy children in their mind. According to my western sensibilities, this is pretty disturbing. However, I'm not so sure they suffer from some mental defect that makes them willing to 'kill' their own babies - rather, circumstances are far different to those that we know and base our beliefs on.