the McGuffin

Submitted by Charles Fortner (United States), Feb 24, 2006 at 16:40

The whole middle east is a facade, a construct of sarcasms, a collection of mcguffins-don't know what a McGuffin is? Look it up.

Beyond all this byzantine labirynth of reasons and resolves, of faith and pretense is one simple reality: people want to live in peace and at least the prospect of prosperity.

anything more, anything less, is pretense, humor.

throw your lot in with any -isms, any ologies, any cons and you get conflict-and that's not what simple people are built for. Get over it.

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