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[PATRICK]

of the cruelest "disappointments" in making hopeful alliances with the "wrong kind of guy" over and over and over again. James Michener's "Covenant" is partly a depressing epic of ally abuse that spans beyond the Biblical disasters of smart alliances with Egypt and the desire to be a player among the big kingdoms
simply to survive.

This one was woefully predictable, the crutch of a giggling prat boy puppet looking for oil in all the Right places for their own decrepit delirium of Sharon style Sturm und Drang solutions to the game Hitler set them up for half a century ago. At least they knew Hitler was their enemy, right? But the progeny of Hitler's backers and the ideologies and the hegemony gamesters. Well, the good old self-dooming realpolitik that lost Holy land for them in the first place has done it again.

Predictable, repetitively predictable. No, you don't need the prophets anymore to get stoned for their troubles.

And the salt tears of God move against the shore and reclaim the land back for the waters of creation while desert and famine and assorted wars pass the time, the long lanky coastline eaten away by the global warming their current idiot ally is lashing on with lies as lunatic as those under which innocent peoples everywhere wither, one sore wound like Baghdad after the other.