Power Kegs and Powder Kegs

Imagine if all the nations in the Middle East pooled their resources. What a power keg that would be.

Coming from a place where education is mandatory and even the poor buy their kids Nikes, it is hard to know what is going on in the minds of those who never learned to read and write and live in squalor. Because of circumstances beyond their control and a government where school is a luxury rather than a right, their minds must be like open vats ready to receive anything that is poured into it if it means a better life and enough food to eat.

What I don't understand is how this squalor occurs in countries that have enough money to buy and sell Manhattan several times over. It is these kinds of things that give rise to revolutions and in many cases terrorists and terrorism.

Still, everyone has a freewill, so expect that the people that broke into the Egyptian museum and decapitated the mummy are the same people who are going to decapitate the culture as well. And the same people that blow up civilians driving in Jerusalem are going to be the same people that turn on their brethren as well.

Though I beg to differ from Jonathan because whatever happens in the Middle East, especially with events in Egypt and now Jordan is bound to affect Israel. The chances are slim that any order will be restored that does not call in the Muslim Brotherhood or some Hamas backed element. And for this Israel should be very scared.

It's too bad that some people's shortsightedness gets in the way because the whole region with all its natural resources and technology could be a power keg rather than a powder keg.