Far too long for snakes

8/6/2006
"Times are gone
For honest men
And sometimes
Far too long
For snakes...."
- Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden, 1994

Ignoring 5000 years of Middle East history is a losing proposition.
There is no military solution to the problem.
Man's inherited tribal instincts were important in success of the species when man was in the early hunter-gatherer stage.
Ironically, in the era of monstrous weapons this tribal instinct has become destructive on an hideous scale.
Only when man can learn to shift tribal identity from an "us versus the enemy" to a we here on Spaceship Earth, will we begin to have civilization.