Errr.....not exactly, but keep throwing out dem faux equivalences and maybe one day you too can get a job at Faux News.

Here in the UK - it has not been that long since the IRA has ceased their bombings. And anyone who tells you that is not a religious issue has not understood the issues. The divide is along (so called) religious lines. And you only have to look to bloody football (soccer) to see that it hasn't entirely gone away. Liverpool and Manchester may have diluted their divide but 60 years ago it was evident. And Glasga is still unrepentant in its rivalry and division.

Throw in abject poverty and you have factions that have little to loose and a lot to gain. And that is what there is in some of these countries that are riven with conflict.

And oil only attracts the outside players, lack of a decent water supply is fueling many wars.

But the biggest problem is population. There is plenty of resource for everyone when humanity is sparsely spread. Not any more! Anyone with a solution to that? This side of Hitler?