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A short guide to the insane asylum called the Middle East..

         

Helpful letter to the editor clears up confusion about the Middle East

         

"That whole Middle East deal sure can be confusing. Thankfully, in this concise and clearly articulated letter to the editor published in the Financial Times, Mr KN Al-Sabah, of London, lays it all out in a way anyone can understand. In full, his letter, entitled "A Short Guide to the Middle East," read:

 

Sir, Iran is backing Assad. Gulf states are against Assad!
Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against General Sisi.
But Gulf states are pro Sisi! Which means they are against Muslim Brotherhood!
Iran is pro Hamas, but Hamas is backing Muslim Brotherhood!
Obama is backing Muslim Brotherhood, yet Hamas is against the US!
Gulf states are pro US. But Turkey is with Gulf states against Assad; yet Turkey is pro Muslim Brotherhood against General Sisi. And General Sisi is being backed by the Gulf states!
Welcome to the Middle East and have a nice day.

 

And a good day to you too, Mr Al-Sabah, and thank you for clearing all that up."

 

http://now.msn.com/a-short-gui...-the-financial-times

 

There once was a large insane asylum in England called Bedlam.  The very name now is used to describe a situation wholly out of control.  The Middle East is that institution writ large.

 

BTW, the Brits, with their sense of humor, converted the Bedlam building to the Imperial War Museum. 

TRUTH -- THE NEW HATE SPEECH!

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Originally Posted by unclegus:

I'm more confused now than ever!

 

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Simple Gus.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

And earlier version as explained by the Kingston Trio ~

 

They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!

But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud,
For mans' been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off, and we will all be blown away.

They're rioting in Africa, there's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellow man.

 

 

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