I ‘m sure a great many of us wished someone a better year than the one before when offering New Years salutations. It’s something we all hope for especially in these troubling times. But will 2012 be a better year than 2011? Well if you believe all the nonsensical hype around the Mayan calendar ending and the foretelling of doom and destruction…No it won’t be a good year.
But we don’t need any mystical mumbo jumbo all we need to do is read the newspapers or listen to the TV to get our monies worth.
The European Union which formed to protect its member countries from economic ruin appears to have failed miserably. One or more of its members are on the verge of economic bankruptcy while almost none of the other members are willing to lift a hand with any serious help. So much for unity.
The Middle East is quickly spiraling down into a very deep abyss and if we’re not careful they will take most of the world with them. Egypt, after a successful over thrown of the tyrant Hosni Mubarack, is slowly slipping back into a military state. Pakistan is on the verge of a military coup to over throw it’s legally elected government and Syria is still killing its citizens at will, right in front of the eyes of UN observers.
Straits of Hormuz
Iran is inching still closer to developing a nuclear weapon as it threatens to close the straits of Hormuz preventing tankers that carry about one quarter of the world’s oil from leaving their ports. The US has vowed to keep the straits open but we all know what that will mean; more American lives at risk.
In North Korea the body of its President Kim Jong Il wasn’t even cold in the grave when it was announced his son, Kim Jong Un was to succeed him as the country’s head murderer. And as soon as the boots of the last US soldier left the country of Iraq the bombings began. Now a century old civil war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims has erupted threatening to turn Iraqi into a bloody religious battlefield.
And here in the US even though our economic outlook appears to have found a glimmer of hope we can only guess what our role will be in the elevating tensions that is spreading across the globe. One thing I am sure of whoever our next President will be….he will definitely have his hands full. Maybe it wasn’t just mumbo jumbo after all.
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