When the war broke out in the Middle East, I thought about the old story of the frog and the scorpion who were trying to cross a river there.
The scorpion couldn't swim and the frog was lost, so the scorpion proposed a deal: Give me a ride on your back and I'll show you the way.
The frog agreed and the trip went fine until they got to the middle of the river and the scorpion stung the frog. As they were sinking, the frog asked in his dying breath, "why would you do that?"
To which the scorpion replied, "because it is the Middle East."
The actual application of the parable is that in the Middle East the extremists, on all sides of the issues, "sting" any hope for peace. No matter what "they" say, they act like scorpions. They cannot seem to help it.
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