Why?

I had a customer (a regular) who came in today to the shop and we got on the subject of politics. This is always a bad way to start any day. Anyway she was asking me if I had seen the Queen of Jordan on TV yet. I don't have television so I told her no and she said that if the world would just stop for 8 hours and do what she has talked about that maybe we could be done with the wars and get on to the livings. I am not an unreasonable woman most of the time but I am getting really tired of people killing off people for ideals that are imagined. Religion should never condone war. There should not be war over a piece of ground or over the minerals in that ground and we need to start listening to each other without framing things in black or white!! Our world is collapsing around us under our weight. Actually the world will survive long after we do. She will simply shake us off like a dog does with unwanted fleas. Why are we (People) who are the most advance species? In the world so actively trying to kill off our own species. Why can we not see that the very thing we do is killing all of us? The Shiites and the Sunnis fight over political and religious differences. Neither is black or white, right or wrong. In Africa there are warlords that continue to kill indiscriminately so that they may control the land and their people, never mind that their people are dying at a far faster rate than anywhere in the world or that their land is drying up and wont be able to support life much longer unless the people living their start concerting their efforts toward finding a solution. There are so many reasons that the earth would want to shake us off that I have problems finding simple reasons why she wouldn't.
The truth is that people are failing to live! We are failing to be of worth to each other and to ourselves. People are losing at the very largest game of all! We are getting ready for elections in the US. Talk about colossal failures! We don't have any politicians anymore because it is way to much trouble to come to a equitable solution for all involved. Its true! To reach a "happy medium" requires patience, tolerance and willingness to compromise. It is too much work for those men and women who call themselves politicians. Its to much work to do research, to find out the very least of what is needed and negotiate with each other for a fair portion of the rest. A fair portion being defined as an equitable portion and agreed upon by all. This is the very basics of politics! And yet most working adults will admit that their jobs do not require even a tenth of that much work! That's why politicians get paid so much so they can become negotiators, not legislators, not kings, not people who control through intimidation and by seeing everyone who doesn't agree with them as being wrong!! It isn't a matter of black and white! When did it become a matter of black and white! When did the world become black and white? The world I live in is flexible, and understanding and full of learning. It isn't until we start to identify things as black and white, right or wrong, left or right, that we start to disregard those around us and parts of ourselves as well. We become failures. It's time to spend money on making peace and preserving it... Not through the threat of intimidation, but through negotiations, talking, understanding, mediation, and acceptance. Until our people (all people) can come to some form of this they will be failures and no more that unwanted fleas on our earth's back! We will not be living up to Christian values, or Buddhist values or Jehovah's values or mother earths values or any other deities that we follow. For what God could want to see his people destroy each other?