The World Disintegrates

South Korea fires on vessels of North Korea, one of the globe's worst proliferaters, as they enter South Korean waters, weeks after a South Korean warship there was sunk, killing more than forty, in all likelihood by a North Korean torpedo. On the streets of Bangkok, protesters against the unelected government are shot dead. Greece seethes with street action against an austerity plan to prevent national bankruptcy, and there too have there been deaths. The Middle East teeters on the precipice of regional war with Iranian proxies Hamas and Hizbollah joining Syria to assail Israel as the rest of the world pressures Israel to skulk back into pre-1967 suicide borders while Israel's alleged negotiating partner, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has demands much hardened by belief that America will abandon her moral backing of Israel and perhaps impose a solution in the Palestinians' favor, continues incitement against Jews unabated and has less popular support than Hamas who does not bother to pretend any goal beyond the removal of Jews which would gain them election in a general Palestinian plebiscite just as it did in Gaza over the corrupt forces of the PA which the West wrongly sees as more moderate. The PA is not accommodationist in any way to true peace, they merely are playing the West's game of negotiation as a means of waging war by other means with the same goal of replacing Israel with a Muslim state. American forces still fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan with Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal under threat of the Taliban. Iran continues to push forward with nuclear ambition accompanied by a promise to "wipe Israel off the map" by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The US has abdicated her moral authority and duty to prevent Iran from fulfilling atomic aspirations and obliterating the Jewish state. Instead, America joins the immoral chorus backing Israel into a corner. On the economic front, Obama fails to see the lessons of Europe's failed socialism just as Europe begins to implode and the Euro collapses from the same cradle to grave socialist excess that Obama seeks to impose on the US. Some would say, "don't worry- things can only get better", but the way the world is going, we will live to see the situation become vastly worse.