What is up with the world?

[danalwyn]

What is it about the last two weeks in the news? Has everyone lost their mind all at once?

The Bangkok situation inevitably disintegrates into the worst plausible outcome.
South Korea comes out and says what everybody already knew (also four North Korean subs went off the map the other day; makes the ROK nervous)
Fighting in Mogadishu
Still fighting in the Kivus.
Border fighting between Somaliland and Ethiopia.
Street fighting in Antananarivo.
Complete breakdown of civil order and all-out war in Kingston.
Street fighting in Kyrgyzstan.
The famine in Niger isn't getting better, and now Chad is in on it.
The DRC wants the UN out of their war.
Chad wants the UN out of their war.
South Africa's had to send troops to the Zimbabwe border with less then a month before the World Cup starts.
Yes, there are still Naxalites in India.
More bombings in [insert name of country here]

Basically you could have replaced the news for the past week with "Things Fall Apart". Here's hoping that we're using up all of summer's aggression in May, and that the rest of it will be quiet (except it won't).

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

It is a bit dispiriting, isn't it?
You could add that Rick Perry is ahead in Texas polls, and Harper's Bazaar just printed a feature on -- ick -- Bristol Palin.

See why I fled to the lake? Alas, I'm back now.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

I think fleeing to the lake sounds like a grand idea, except that my lake is probably closer to the crazy.

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

Has everyone lost their mind all at once?

Yes.*





*I actually had a longer response appended to this, but decided that more really didn't need to be said.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're probably right. That seems to be about the only response left these days...