A Messy World

Watching the news has me aware that the world is a messy place. The world's problems are multiplying to beyond the capabilities of our political leaders to solve them. Everything is changing so very rapidly and not for the best. It appears that the world ,as I know it, is on a collision course with destruction. Today we have small nations standing up to the larger and more powerful, saying "we are strong" and are even threatening the more powerful. There is a growing violent religious fervor that seems to be beyond the understanding of the Western World.

The world is changing. The balances of power are shifting. New power blocks of nations are being formed. The world as I know it, where the United States is the major world power, is fading faster than I ever thought possible. It appears that our nation will soon be going through an economic meltdown like that of the former Soviet Union. In Europe and in Asia new world powers are emerging and will soon be flexing their economic and military muscles.
I hope that the nations will take to heart what General Douglas MacArthur said at the end World War II on the battleship Missouri.

quote: "A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.... Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural development of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."