Yester-day was supposed to be a joyous day in London.

But a few currently unnamed individuals who felt the need to hurt many other unnamed individuals cut all the excitement short.

Less than 24 hours after the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Olympic Games would be held in London, a few dozen innocent lives were taken in the English city simply because they happened to be living their life.

People who want to divide the world quickly shattered something done to unite the world.

An al Qaeda-linked group based in Europe claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Initially, I was shocked to arrive back to my apartment yesterday morning and see CNN's breaking news coverage. Saddened, frustrated and disappointed, I kept repeating to myself how cruel another terrorist attack was.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how these heinous acts should've been expected and are long overdue.

Forces from the United States and Britain (among other countries) have been destroying foreign soil continuously for some four years now.

The bombings, gun battles and rhetoric have been persistent in Afghanistan and Iraq with no clear-cut end in sight.

Imagine living in Baghdad. Imagine having your city overcome by gun-toting foreigners in camouflage who don't speak your language. Imagine walking down the street to see your grocery store, pizza shop, office or home destroyed.

Imagine seeing bloody sidewalks, body parts lying on the ground, with rounds of ammunition and screams echoing in the distance.

Imagine walking down the street to find 60 members of your community are killed in one day. And since the bombers don't follow the same religion, speak the same language or look the same as those who bombed them, they're not going to flinch at the ever-climbing death toll.

And remember, for years, this has been a part of your everyday life.

Now, after all of this, you tell me, wouldn't you want to bomb the enemy?

Wouldn't you want to hit those who have been terrorizing you for what seems like ages and have them wake up to see what they're doing to your country?

I get mad when somebody displaces something from my desk. I can only imagine what would happen if somebody killed my neighbors.

So who are we to blame when our country or its allies suffer repercussions from the war we've started in the name of peace?

Ourselves. And only ourselves.

It's human nature to have an ethnocentric viewpoint on everything because we can only see out of our own two eyes.

And even though we may sometimes examine this war from an Iraqi perspective, we just don't know what it feels like to have our safety taken away, homes destroyed and friends killed on a daily basis.

I'm not saying by any means that the culprits behind yesterday's bombings were right. But after destroying their homeland and raping their lifestyle all in the name of anti-terrorism efforts, it seems like they're returning the favor to us.

And instead of quickly labeling this as terrorism, we need to re-examine the current status of the world. Everyone needs to back down from murder and enjoy the precious time we have on earth.

Yesterday's bombing just further proves that killing innocent lives never solves problems; it just creates them.