NEWSFLASH! The Really Scary People again

You humans are a truly mind-boggling species and are in dire need of bilateral hemispherectomies. Mind you, I’m not sure even that will help.

Aside from the Draconians (who are probably pulling your strings and having a good old chuckle), I have never come across such a savage, bloodthirsty lot (and there I thought Granny Were at full moon was bad).

It seems that telling lies, weaving webs of deceit, killing, maiming, warring, plundering and, shopping, are things humans really get off on. Aside from the stampede down at the mall this morning, what I’m actually referring to here is the insanity being allowed to bubble out of control in that place you refer to the Middle East. (Where, by the way is the Middle West, I can’t seem to locate that?)

You know, the thing I find so strange is that humanity created a series of organisations to promote global common sense, peace, order, negotiation (and the rest of us got all hopeful) but then “powers that be” took away all the authority from said organisations. How weird is that? I mean, what’s the point?

So now you have a United Nations (and there's a misnomer if I ever heard one) which recommends a ceasefire, and the Scary People are saying, "No, not yet. Don't go messing with our fun. Let the one lot have a really good chance to beat the stuffing out of the other lot. Let's all pull up at the Colloseum and watch the games. It's cool watching people being ripped to shreds, bleeding all over the place, shrieking and wailing. Yeah, bring it on!"

Does anyone really think that allowing Israel to bomb the stuffing out of their cousins - and don’t get me wrong, I fully appreciate the business of relatives - is going to make things better or improve er… relations between anyone? Just how thick are human decision-makers? Is there a single family brain cell amongst the lot of them or is the wheel just going round and round while the gerbil has popped out for some coke?

How’s this for the absurdity of the thing. The British Prime Minister is quoted in the Guardian as saying, “Of course we all want violence to stop and stop immediately.” Thing is, no sooner are the words from his lips than British officials privately acknowledge the US has given Israel a green light to continue bombing Lebanon until it believes Hezbollah's infrastructure has been destroyed.

I don’t know about you, but logic utterly defies me on this one.

And here’s the inequality of the skirmish. More than 230 civilians in Lebanon have been killed in the past week (despite the Israeli deputy prime minister saying they don’t want to harm innocent Lebanese…) while the total of Israeli civilian deaths is 13. And all this because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. Erm, didn’t someone mention to the Israelis that if you insist on living by the sword you must expect to die by the sword?

I'm figuring if humanity carries on like this the rest of the universe can rely on you wiping yourselves out - sooner rather than later - which would save every other species a lot of bother. Since it seems so inevitable, why not just hurry up and get it over and done with?