The Terrorist as Artist and Why War?

A nice article overall, if a little dated, and in light of the current political climate perhaps another example of 'whats worse than fiction?' I see a distinct parallel between these two writings, the Freud Einstein letters and the Times OpEd article. In both cases we see a discussion of one of the most basic of human questions which is 'what is evil?"- Whereas the Times article expresses this question directly by declaring the terrorist's motivations as confused ideologies expressing rage in lieu of justification as little more than evil, confusing and inexplicable, contagious and hypocritical, the Freud letter places interesting psychological boundaries on the conflict of conflict itself declaring war to be an inevitable, even at times necessary force of the basic human ethos guided simultaneously by the desire for Eros (love, survival of genes) and Destruction (protection from Other). Freud goes so far as to relate the Destructive gene to the actual achievement of consciousness itself, as if Mind is declaring I think therefore I am and I must protect the I. Hence, war and conflict. Unfortunately, Freud is more optimistic than the Times article in that the Times sees no end to the war scenario (Freud doesn't either but he sees a way out) and ends on a desultory note not unlike the conflict in the Batman movies wherein the Dark Night must transgress into chaos and evil in order to destroy the Joker, thus destroying that which he stands for as the scion of Justice and equanimity. Freud at least encourages Einstein to a more hoepful end (sort of) if only what he calls cultural evolution continues wherein the intellectual and the reasoned flourish beyond the uneducated and the primitive which he refers to as somewhat on par with farm animals. Freud's arrogance is nothing new, nor is his contempt for women, so maybe he isnt the best to testify on behalf of pacifism and human restraint, but I do agree with him unfortunately. Simply put, some people are just too stupid to be allowed to govern themselves unfettered. Kony and his ilk are one example, and there are numerous bloodlusting warlords from Africa to South Asia who are as bad if not worse, seeming to move in reverse of the evolution of industrialized mankind, and then we see people like Rick Santorum and Ron Paul and Ayn Rand and Mitt Romney and the Catholic Church and one wonders if human cultural evolution is more like a series of fits and starts and not an even progression of one event leading up a slope to another. Then again I have to interject Nietzsche here since he saw the ultimate end to the purely rational evolution of man which is that God is Dead and that man must now replace him and become the superman. And then we got Hitler. Yay. Any one else?