PC>RN> I don't think war in the Fertile Crescent will ever end as long as men
PC>RN> live there.
 
PC> How very true ....
 
It's really very sad.  My youngest son was in the Marine Corps and was sent
to Beirut right after those 253 Marines were killed by a truck bomb.  His
unit was to relieve those already there and those who were killed didn't
come home in a way they expected.  During the skirmishes which ensued, I
almost lost my son in a mortar attack.
 
PC>PC>RN> You should read some of my mail.  (-:
 
PC> Well I am reading it now...
 
Nah, I'm referring to the old stuff.  It's really spicy, but I wouldn't put
it on food or eat while reading.  (-:
 
PC> Getting back to Israel and the middle east as a region, and it's
PC> problems.
 
PC> Can you imagine, the economic clout they would have, in tourism
PC> if they ever could agree, just to put the religious bickerings
PC> aside?    Last night, a friend of mine gave me a video from the
PC> region, and explained just how dumb it all is, and how each
PC> religion is clinging to this and that, not moving or giving
PC> for the common good, and all their religious believes.
 
Well, yeah, I can imagine it.  I've seen photos my son took while there and
he told me that whole area is very beautiful.  But those stoneheads will
never get over their religious anger long enough to realize they're sitting
on a gold mine.  It's the older ones who constantly teach the younger ones
to hate that I have the biggest problem with.  
PC> There is even a ladder or remains against a wall that is in
PC> dispute, as celery fist fight over who can do what where ..etc.
PC> Apparently the ladder dates from late 1800s.
 
Maybe even earlier than that.
 
PC> Then I see celergy fist fighting over this or what which just
PC> seems so stupid ....but so hot is the dispute and control.
 
To our way of life it is stupid.  What they fail to realize is even if they
were to eradicate the people they hate the most (the Israelis) and have
that whole territory for themselves, then what's next?
 
PC> No Peace .... never, and anyone living there, might as well
PC> get use to it, and if they want peace.....eliminate the other
PC> guy.   Might as well.   Bad to say, but it is just so tightly
PC> jaggered for even a border let alone anything else, they might
PC> as well decide it all by killing until only one group is left.
 
It's an out and out waste of time and men and the elderly irresponsibles
are directly responsible because that hate has been handed down for
generations.
 
PC> So much for religion and a deity that is suppose to practice
PC> and encourage peace.
 
Peace on THEIR terms.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... Hermits have no sense of peer pressure.
--- D'Bridge 3.1