What are the chances that the ME could settle back down once this blows through the region?

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3. Middle East is so very complicated and not nearly as simple to understand as American Idol.

It's a big world out there which includes many different people with a variety of beliefs and ideologies and Americans, especially right-wing America lacks the capability to even try to understand those differences and/or our history of influence in many of these areas.

Americans can't handle the truth, we say we're tolerant but in reality we are not. We claim to be empathetic, sympathetic, openminded but we're not really.

We too often (one party specifically, in fact my posted is almost entirely directed at one particular party) want to solve everything with bombs and drones without thinking of the longterm effects these actions have on generations of people.

That Barack Obama is STILL attacked on his "otherness", his race, his intelligence - everything in fact and a rather large number of Americans agree, is proof this intolerance.

Our media being the compromised guttertripe that it is, will not even attempt to educate the masses.

This is what frightens the hell out of me, it always did.