Middle East-A killing zone

For weeks now the Israeli's have been fighting the Hizballah "nation" with many deaths on both sides. I read the Kuwiat Times and and the Arab Times newspapers and see photos of dead children on the front page of these newspapers almost daily. Something we don't see in American news papers - the true cost of all war - the destruction of our future. Many demonstrations are held in Kuwait and I have noticed how I am starred at now, much more than in the past few months. So the Shi'ite Muslim group called Hizballlah, supported by Iran, sends missles into Israel from its bases in Lebanon. Hizballah is functioning not just as a state within a state but almost as the state itself. Hizballah has filled a need of the people in Lebanon by buidling schools and hospitals while staging missles in Lebanon it gets from Iran. The Middle East is war zone from Lebanon to Iraq. While to the east in Afghanistan the talaban continue to fight and attach US forces in the south near Kabul and Bagram. While I still think about the fact that the birth of civiliazation took place in Sumer (modern Iraq) with the first organized religion, government, and written language, to the beginnings of monotheism, which conceived Judaism, Christanity, and Islam - many people can trace thier roots to this region. When will we focus on what is common to our species and not on the differences?