I can't believe this!?

Question

I can't believe the news today!
Some of the headlines:
1. Militants blew up three Sunni mosques — apparently revenge strikes for a suicide truck bombing yesterday that killed at least 87 people and badly damaged an important Shiite mosque in the capital.
2. Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip.
3. As of Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at least 3,528 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the
Iraq war in March 2003.
4. Last year was one of the worst on record for refugees and the crisis is deepening in 2007 thanks to conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan's Darfur region.

I am so sick of this bull. How long? Israel and Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia...The list goes on. Have we not learned from history - from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and countless other conflicts?

Randy,
I am not taking sides. I am not saying the US is or is not justified in the Iraq war. I am not saying I support Israel or Palestine.
The point I am trying to make is war seems to be everywhere. Hate and bigotry seem to be everywhere. When was the last time you read a positive news story? These days you open the paper and it's about civil wars, wars between drug cartels, school violence, you name it. From Sudan to Ethiopia to the Middle East to Asia to Europe, it seems conflict is just around the corner. There's too much meaningless death, too much loss. Compromise is not a bad thing. If there ever was a time for it, it's now.

Answer 1

Do you know what Jesus called the Palestinians? They were the Philistines. It has gone on that long.

The longest lasting, most painful, insoluble, bitter wars in the whole world are between neighbors, people who share borders and histories.

Jimmy Carter pointed that out, after extensive research.

You want to know who pointed it out first? Herodotus, Greek who was the Father of History. Lived in the 5th Century.

You can look it up.

Answer 2

I can only say this, war is ugly no matter what the cause. But truthfully, there are times when one must fight. ight now, we are fighting in Iraq and afganistan. We are fighting there, so that we don't have to fight them here at home. Remember 9-11? Yes approx. 3,500 american soldiers have died in the years of fighting in Iraq. And that is not a good thing. But they are soldiers who know the risk. What about the approx.2400 innocent americans killed in one terroist attack here at home? Do you want more of that? Do you think that if we stopped fighting, all the good little terrorists would leave us alone? If you do, your very badly mistaken. They will attack and kill americans for no other reason, than they just like killing and they resent our way of life. Even though we are as a whole, the most tolerant people on earth.
As for the fighting between the sunni's shea, kurds etc, they have been fighting for over 1200 years, it has nothing to do with us. Israel has my admiration. They are a small country surrounded by enemies. Yet they hold there own by resisting the evil directed at them. Peace in the middle east would occur if the countries would stop fighting for "religous" or other made up reasons and left each other alone. But they never will. To them, it's believe in my beliefs, or we kill you.

Answer 3

and than they complain about salmun rushdie getting hit over the head with a sword by the queen of england.