New Evidence Suggests Middle East Conflict Predates All Human Civilization

[dixiegrrrrl]

NEW YORK—In a major breakthrough that provides new insight into the region’s deep-seated instability, researchers at Columbia University presented evidence Tuesday that indicates the long-running conflict currently engulfing the Middle East predates all human civilization.

According to the team of leading historians, archaeologists, and paleontologists, the regional turmoil appears to have originated long before the Sunni-Shiite rift of the seventh century or even the first proto-urban settlements in Mesopotamia some 11,000 years earlier, with data suggesting that the violent struggle has been raging across the same 5-million-square-mile area since the dawn of life on earth.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-evidence-suggests-middle-east-conflict-predate,38428/


too too funny....

[arcane1]

1. the destructive coral wars of the Devonian period and the 270-million-year Trilobite Intifada.

[csziggy]

2. My husband maintains that the sword was invented for Mid East wars

But it makes sense that the conflicts would have begun much earlier!

Yeah, Onion writers!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Has he seen this vid that explains the progression of ME weapons?

which is also very funny, in a rueful way.

[hifiguy]

4. An awful lot of truth for just three and a half minutes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Indeed....

I played it several times when I first heard it.

[csziggy]

5. No - but I'll show it to him tonight

He'll enjoy the ironic humor in it. Thanks!