An editorial on the destablization of the world.


This year likely will be remembered as one in which the international community further destabilized.

Many of the Top 10 international news stories as voted by readers of The Yomiuri Shimbun dealt with this destabilization, both regionally and globally. The stories include North Korea, which selfishly argues for the continuation of its nuclear program; the United States, as it struggles with the continuing chaos in Iraq; and a Middle East peace process in utter disarray.

Amid the anxiety and confusion, the international community is about to enter 2007 with no clear sense of how to proceed


2006 a year of further global destabilization : Editorial : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

Has the world become more destabiled?

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The world has always been that messy; I don't see anything new.

It seems to be about who has the most influence and where. Messy? For sure! ill get better? Probably not in my lifetime.

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Business as usual.

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Unless the US changes it foreign policy of force in the Middle East, 2006 might seem like a cake walk.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

At this point a change of policy, IMO, will be impossible. Current administration is grasping at straws to achieve 'victory' in an attempt to redeem some scrap of their badly tarnished legacy. Throw in Saud support of Sunni resistance to Shiite revenge genocide, a US economy that can't reduce military expenditures without sinking GDP, world demand for oil, mix and top with Israeli real estate policies for expansion of US/Israeli force.

Current administration set aggressive, military enforced policy and maintained same by continual refocus of the general public. In Iraq we went from WMDs to deposing a tyrant to a democratic Iraq to spreading democracy in the ME and now making Iraq self-sustaining in civil and military matters with a puppet Shiite government aligned with Iran with both hands deep into in US money pockets. All accomplished, if that means anything, while excluding the entire former Sunni government and military. Does it get any dumber?

I don't know what it'll be, maybe Iran, maybe N. Korea (difficult due to China/N. Korea and US/Israeli special relationships with China using N. Korea as a border buffer), maybe Syria, maybe a terrorist attack on the US, but we will have another refocus by our sleazy, self-serving leadership. Unless, of course his father says no, he does have the political power, but he's never denied his son anything in a life notable for the son's personal and business failures.

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You're probably right george. I'm not sure what could be done to change the course we seem to be headed for. The scary part is Bush won't listen to anyone. He totally ignores the obvious, that our foreign policy isn't working.

I don't recall such a stubborn president as this one.To totally dismiss anyone who has a solution is beyond belief.

I'm not sure what crisis will take place next but I'm not confident in the logic that Bush uses to attempt to solve problems.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

Our foreign policy will always serve the military-industrial complex--for the more ordinance that is used then more they must make. A vivious cycle with no break, at least for now.

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Editorial about the likely hotspots.


WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq promises not only to top the Bush administration's foreign policy agenda in 2007, but will cast a long shadow across it from the Middle East to the Korean peninsula.

The worsening war has emboldened Iran, now clearly striving for regional hegemony across the Muslim Middle East and possibly a nuclear weapon. North Korea, which tested a nuclear warhead in October, is less intimidated by the United States than it was several years ago

Hotspots abroad poised to get hotter for U.S. in 2007 - USATODAY.com

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It sounds to me like a good play on words. The world has most certainly become destabilized, but let's look at events in history, shall we? Did the American Revolution destabilize the world? Did the American Civil War destabilize the world? Did joining World War I destabilize the World? Did joining World War II destabilize the world? Hey, hasn't civil rights movements destabilized the world?

The world is without a doubt unstable, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Great changes do not occur in the world without a period of great instability.