Quote Originally Posted by George L. Singleton View Post
We are in way over our heads in all these areas where ethnic divisions and conflicting claims of soverignty reach back hundreds... in the case of the Palestinians and Israel thousands of years old.

I am exhausted by the events and frictions. The Pakhtuns want a Pakhtunwana Land; the Kurds want Kurdistan; and the Palestinians want all of Israel back, which on it's face is absurd and impossible.
... hmmmm... so we are all fighting over the same stuff we always did? Sadly this will come as a great surprise to a great many.