Praying for some Dea ex machina in the Middle East...

I may have mentioned before that the conflict surrounding Israel scares the shit out of me. Even if we had a reasonable government, I'd be worried about the building war between Israel and Hezbollah. Unfortunately, we're living in Bizzarro Amerikkka, where the worst possible person for any position in the administration is the very person who has the job in question. If we survive the Bush years, we will truly know that Goddess is on our side, because I don't see any possible way we're getting out of this mess with our country intact. Our Democracy is on the roof waiting for the boats to come rescue it, and Mike Brown is still working for FEMA. Let's pray Lady Liberty can swim.

I'm doing this little dance where I try to hear enough news to know what's happening, but not so much that my head explodes. The fact that Condi Rice, the most spectacular fuck-up in the history of our nation, is over there trying to work things out is just the most recent tragedy in the 5,000 year obscenity of Eastern Patriarchy. They were actually not going to call for a cease-fire until they could ensure a lasting peace. WTF?!?!?!?

Apparently every official in this deal is working on the incorrect premise that a) bombs solve anything and b) someone can be entitled to drop bombs on someone else. I defy anyone on either side to give me one substantive reason for dropping a bomb on a baby, because that's what they're doing. I'll take any cease fire I can get, whether it lasts a day or an hour, because that's one day, or one hour, or one minute that innocent people aren't dying for.... what the hell are they fighting about, again? A shithole in the desert that is basically uninhabitable, but for some ungodly reason - oh, wait- for some "godly" reason the Jews, Christians and Muslims all want to occupy the same barren patch of desert because their moldy old scrolls tell each group that they're entitled to it. Show me a scroll that says Aruba is the promised land, and you might convince me. Israel? No way. The heat has obviously curdled all their brains, or maybe it's the religion, but do they ever just stop and look around and say "why are we making this miserable place more miserable than it already is?"

I say instead of evacuating Americans who are stupid enough to find themselves over there, we offer to evacuate anyone who is willing to live somewhere else peacefully. Once we've got them safely settled elsewhere, we take the planes we used to evacuate them, and we go to every official in DC and tell any one of them that sees a reason for anybody, American or not, to be fighting in the Middle East to get on the plane. Then we pick up Falwell and Dobson and everyone who works for FOX news. We fly all of them over to the patch of desert, so that now, only people who think this is worth fighting for are there.

Now, the trick is, we take away all of the bombs. They get guns and bullets, only. They fight it out hand to hand or not at all. All transportation in or out ceases, so that they have to stay there and deal with the mess they've created. No electricity, no communications of any kind, just them, the desert, guns and their unshakable faith that Jesus will be back at any minute or whatever they think is going to happen. The rest of the world will go on with its life, knowing that they have no bombs and can only hurt each other. We'll have guards around the perimeter so no one gets out. When they've all died out from whatever, we'll reward the border guards with trips to Aruba, and we start working on Africa. We keep going until there's peace on the planet, and anyone who wants to fight about anything gets shipped off to Antarctica.

That's certainly no crazier than the trash Bush and Condi have been talking this week, and frankly, my idea has a better chance of working because I don't actively pray for the world to end. What I pray for is for the Goddess to make Herself prominent in the world again, and inspire humans to work together in peace and harmony.

We CAN do better. Peace is possible - it's our natural state of being.