Writing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on July 18, guest columnist John T. McBride summed up the current war in the Middle East succinctly and wisely:

"Food is primary.  Air is really primary.  Water.  Shelter.  Procreation.  Sleep.  Recreation.  Not religion.  So, in the pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial ages we poison the air, pollute the water, work too long hours, don't get enough rest or exercise, and eat questionable diets.  But we kill each other over religion.  By the millions we kill each other."

How can you make sense out of the horrifying death, destruction, and billons spent on killing people, indeed of helping them?  Pollution generates greenhouse gases, which heat up oceans, spawn hurricanes, melt the Alaskan icebergs, and send temperatures skyrocketing over 100 degrees.

All the while people are suffering.  But the polluters are delighted.  The Bush Republican Administration does nothing while Americans sizzle.