I would go for this if our countrys past and present lived up to its promises of freedom to every American according to the constitution. But, No. You have to fight for it even after having fought in all this countrys wars. Even that is not good enough or you would not need Amendments to that same constitution in order to enjoy those rights. A place where the President has suffered imeasurable disrespect and racism from his peer's and others but still maintained the dignity one would expect from the President of the United States of America.

Indeed Bruce - many humans passed through or settled at this "Fertile Crescent" of life on there ways elsewhere - to and fro. Amazing all that could be found there. The history and archeological buildings and artifacts - from Pharoah's to the British to Saddam - wealth and power - so much squandered though. It's nice to read articles like this and hear of other's visits after so long restricted. Agreed, the religion that finally settled there - broken between the Houses of The Muslim Prophet and Familial declarations at the time of Mohammed's death is much as the Schizms in other religions monotheistically born from Abraham. That the Common Thread has not passed down as it had previously when Jew, Muslim, Christian feasted together for births (circumcisions), High Holy Days (Red Letter Days in the Catholic Church since), marriages, deaths of respected elders and the sharing of harvests and working together - is a shame. Being together against the enemies of all made them strong - but it wasn't to last as the very thing keeping them together was taken over by jealous zealots determined to increase their own power and have Nations in their own images - instead of those of their people. Unfortunate,...unforeseen at the time. And yet, we still suffer from it now even with greater understanding of the totality of the World around us.

Bruce, I appreciate your response. Correction: Isn't Pure Theocracy a way of Life purely ordained by the Creator, like, rules and laws handed down from G-D?, ...So, how can Islam be pure theocracy?