[Grovenet] Re: Mideast wars, oil

[JBlair2154 at aol.com]

Just my two cents worth:
 
Had it not been for the horror of the holocaust and the plight of  surviving 
Jews after WWIII -- which understandably gained the sympathy of the  world -- 
the U.N. might not have given Jewish refugees and immigrants to  Palestine 
permission to form their own state. So I blame  Hitler. His bloody legacy lives 
on.
 
Oil?  Americans will continue to guzzle it until they can't  afford it at 
all, which may or may not be after the "Hubbard Peak" is reached  and the 
resources are no longer there.
 
Wars begin essentially for territorial or economic reasons, or  as power 
quests (and most often a combination of all three) and self-defensive  measures 
too often go often beyond self-protection and become motivated by  revenge and 
hatred. Religious extremism motivates the masses to join the  cause and 
sacrifice themselves, believing that they are on God's side.  And  David, I agree 
with you that our species seemed to have made precious little  progress since we 
first banded into prehistoric tribes. 
 
Meanwhile, the government of China, where only 2% of dogs are  vaccinated 
against rabies, has reacted to a rabies outbreak (more than 200  people died) by 
clubbing to death 50,000 dogs -- even those being walked by  their owners or 
in the homes of their owners.
 
The question is: will the human race ever become truly civilized? 
 
Joy