Culture Wars ---> Armageddon at Last?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon

Hopefully we are not facing the end of times. However, recent events here, there, and elsewhere do not bode well for global peace.

*The Tamils (Hindus) started the suicide bomber games (against their compatriot Buddhists) in Sri Lanka some decades back.

*Right wing American fundamentalists are calling for the restoration of Israel so that it can be destroyed along with all its unconverted Jews.

*The U.S. seems bent on exterminating the Afghani Talibans (what percentage of the population of Afghanistan?).

*Israel has launched a two front war on the Palestinians living in Gaza and upon Hezbollah (and Lebanon generally).

*The Bush administration is claiming that Syria and Iran are really the source of support for Hezbollah (encouraging the Israelis to extend their wars to yet another front?).

*The U.S. is bogged down in the increasing chaos that we have created in Afghanistan and Iraq.

*North Korea launches missiles here, there and elsewhere as it expands its alleged stock of nuclear warheads.

*Dr. Khan, who has supplied nuclear knowhow here, there, and elsewhere thrives in Pakistan where Musharraf, not a member of the five basic tribal groups there, holds on to his military domination established by a coup, but potentially ended off by his assassination.

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Some details:

*Israel Imposes Blockade on Lebanon;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1686225.htm

*Israel Strikes Kill 27 in Lebanon

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A67F0AD3-7964-41BC-98A9-CA752CA5B89F.htm

Iraqi PM: Last chance for peace

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C95DBBEB-9D9E-4B81-81E6-C5D0A9B02112.htm

*Peretz: We won't let Hezbollah return to border

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/737860.html


*Iraqi PM: Last chance for peace

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C95DBBEB-9D9E-4B81-81E6-C5D0A9B02112.htm

*U.S. to Update Alert System for Disasters

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/us/13alert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

And meanwhile the fires burn out of control in the West while the East coast floods? Are we getting the message?
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