is the whole world going mad?

NY Times

Yesterday in Fort Hood in Texas a United States army soldier opened fire and killed 13 of his fellow troops and wounded a further 30 more before being killed himself, several rumours have come about a handful suggesting that he had argued with military colleagues who supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and had tried to prevent his own deployment.

This follows more deaths of soldiers in the Afghan theater, no clear purpose of the war shown or a reason for deploying a further 80,000 American troops, whose enemy is clearly not the Taliban, but the general Afghan public!



Not only is the United States economy deep down in the dumps at the moment but Obama is sending more young men and women to die in Afghanistan, the graveyard of historical empires going back merely as far as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 following their eight year bloody conflict with the Taliban of its day the Mujahideen.

And above all this Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize, I don't know how anyone thought he was the most deserving but maybe that is just me.



Protests in Iran continue, Basij thugs beating the shit out of young Green Protesters doesn't seem to be even news worthy anymore along with that of Israeli threats to preemptively attack Iran which could spark a war that could kill hundreds of thousands if not millions seems to be the norm these days.

A new Cold War between India and China is growing but that isn't nearly as terrifying as the idea of Tony Blair being President of Europe without a referendum!



While not a believer of a singular European state it wouldn't surprise me if in a mere decade we will have a United States of Europe, but hopefully one with a president elected by the people he/she will be representing and one with blood free hands!