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@tommy.irene wrote:
This has been posted on another earlier thread:on afourm that i belong too.. Are you confused by what is going on in the Middle East? We support the Iraqi government in the fight againstISIS. Wedon’t likeISIS, butISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like. Wedon’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, butISIS is also fighting against him. Wedon’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight againstISIS. So some of our friends support our enemies, some enemies are now our friends, and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose, but wedon’t want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win. If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they could be replaced by people we like even less. And all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out. It's quite simple, really. Do you understand now?

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And joking apart this hasn't:

On 26 September 1983, the nuclear early warning system of the Soviet Union twice reported the launch of American Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were correctly identified as a false alarm by Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Aid Defence Forces. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack based on erroneous data on the United States and it's NATO allies, which would have likely resulted in a nuclear war and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned. 

Evo's post at 23: 'Why is it that mankind is so blind to the fact that not all mistakes can be put right and one day one of those mistakes will unltmately end it All.......unless nature does it first'  My reply is partly due to your comment too.  Thank you.