Iran trying to make nuclear weapons (can you blame them?) and Israel threatening war with Iran if they do not stop. Ok, David and Goliath rerun playng out. So how does the US fit into this picture. US supports Israel no matter what they do to their neighbors and neighbors being attacked are always the bad guy, right? Terrorists, jihadists, people trying to walk down the street w/out getting shot or bombed, and leaders clinging to whatever they can hold on to make up much of the Middle East. I see no easy solution and fighting there will continue there because few really want peace, they want surrender. Ok I borrowed that last bit from The Devil's Own (Traumatized young boys become angry young men and then they become a problem).
From a distant land and a person who does not live in a war zone, I can only say this.
We can have war or we can have peace. We can't have both at the same time.
And I can quote this from the American Civil War.
I have shot many cannons at West Point and used to the way they sound. But it is another sound when the cannonball is coming towards you.
George Armstrong Custer
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