lately i’ve been reading about the history of the middle east over the 65000 years since humans first came out of africa into the fertile crescent and it has basically been 65000 years of tribal thinking and warfare. closer to our time i have also read the history of the league of nations between the world wars and the active period of the UN during reconstruction, including the marshall plan, after the second world war, up to the present. with notable exceptions (the marshall plan for instance seems to have been enlightened even if almost unintentionally) it is sad how selfish the history of humans has been. in the current bloodbath, as always mostly of civilians, no matter how insistent and even rational some of the principals sound i can’t help being reminded of a simple fact of arresting clarity delivered to most of us by our parents by the time we were six years old - that ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ .
