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Vietnam or Israel

Have you head the latest from Iraq? While there are many who seem to think we are falling into a Vietnam, it also seems that we may be falling into a new Israel -- and I don't know which is worse. How long have the Israelies and Palestinians been blowing each other up? And with what kind of progress on either side has been the result.

Today, the news from Iraq sounded just like the news from Israel. The Air Force goes in and bombs a bunch of suspected terrorist locations in retaliation for an attack. How many times has that headline been printed in Israel? And then the following week the Palestinians bomb some bus stop someplace in retaliation for the retaliation and back comes the Air Force. I think the only way this cycle is going to end is when both sides finally kill all of each other off. Soldiers, terrorists, bombers, shooters, school kids, mothers and babes in arms.

That area of the world, just like so many other areas of the world, only live to kill. I'm beginning to think the real abberation in the world is us here in the US. Maybe we got most of it out of our system during the War Between the States. Yeah, we've got our nut-cases like Timothy McVie and the unabomber, but very little is really organized. Yes, we have riots and other assorted outbreaks of violence, but it is nowhere near as unrelenting as other places in the world. Eastern Europe (of course, can't forget UK), Africa, South America, Asia, all seem to be one long low level (and sometimes high level) batch of killings.

Sometimes I think what this world needs is another 1 in 65 million year asteroid collision. Clean off the slate and start again. There's got to be some kind of life form out there that can live without killing each other.

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