And any art worth its salt generally has an ambiguous resolution. The one thing you can really do to diminish these questions is to be glib or facile about them. The truth is, I don't know the answers to these questions myself, try as I might to think about them. Like evil itself, they exist somewhere in the realm of the unknowable. There's something about evil, real evil, that is not everyday.
Lets end with that, at least for now.
You will need to hit the reload button on your browser to see your comments America is answering the invitation to dance with the The warriors in the caves. Each religion considering the other one evil. It appears the absence of evil is something that can only be obtained by finding the darwanian Holy Grail or a darwanian Holy Jihad. And the irony is that as a Vietnam Veteran I agree with the Americans. In the end I was angry because I realized I had fought under the romantic notions and whims of Christian politicians.