Racial, Gender, Tribal, Religious -- Wars Spread
Burning, killing, and other violence erupted days ago, among "neighbors" who have "peacefully" co-existed in Myanmar, (formerly Burma). The Republicans in the House have corralled "their" white women to do battle with other white women in this country over the abortion of white babies (nobody believes the Republicans give a damn about any other babies). The Republicans fall back on blatantly racial arguments to stop Immigration Reform, after their Batista Cuban "cover" falters, and the Congressional Budget Office determines that the nation would benefit economically from Reform.
Where Europeans drew borders in their rush to colonize and trap indigenous peoples into "slavery-in-place"; warring tribal and religious elements were also trapped. As those old arrangements "unwind", locally and regionally, the entire world will continue to be threatened by what is happening in the Middle East and Africa. Syria represents a mega-interaction of European "meddling" with the historic peoples in that region.
The corrupt institutions put in place to hold European designs in check, are coming un-raveled around the world; driven by technological advances in communication. For example, members of the Congress of the United States, perhaps the most obviously corrupt of highly visible institutions, sounds pitiful and ludicrous when their members wail that Snowden should have placed his "trust" in them.
World War II, because it ended in localized nuclear annihilation, put an end to large-scale warfare between nation-states. The dreaded "nuclear holocaust" portended by Cold War Hawks, never happened. All of the remnants of earlier conflicts, however, were left to play out. We're seeing that around the globe. We still are plagued by the presence of the nukes, also; as addressed by President Obama in his Brandenburg Gate speech this morning.
In 1979, I was assigned to break a mutiny among nuclear scientists and to conduct a test of the B-52. I saw, first-hand, the tentacles of corruption in the military. It has only spread since. Fighting corruption in institutions will be the largest challenge facing citizens of Democracies around the world. Where institutions do not exist, or are weak, all Hell may break loose. It will be localized -- at least in the beginning.
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