The Authentic Experience (continued..part 2.)

In crazy times like these,
when all the world just seems to be spiralling downwards
in a dizzying blur
and sometimes I cannot decide whether to be angry
with the Korean government for failing to save
the poor man from getting beheaded,
or to be even more resolute in wanting governments
to send the signal that such cowardly acts will not
stop them from doing what's right,
when the media suddenly becomes circumspect about
reporting such gruesome acts
Yet on the very same day
publish the figures of the number of primary students
who committed suicide from 1997 to 2003,
it seems all the clearer to me that we need God.

Was the second world war worse than this? Hitler and the Japanese may have massacred millions, but at least the world knew WHO the enemies were. And the soldiers knew what they were fighting for. To the cynic, the war, in the end, was about who dropped a more devastating bomb, but at least in retrospect the perpetrators have hung their heads in shame and admitted to their errors. Lesson learnt from there: In a war between nations, the man with the biggest stick, the most powerful weapon will bring an end to the conflict.

Laying the ironies aside, who are the enemies now?
The US and her British cronies? For the sheer hypocrisy of going into a war without substantial justification, and then mistreating its POWS, while taking other countries to task for appalling human rights records?
Some would like to think so. But to end the Bush administration, to topple the Korean government, is as sure a sign to the terrorists that terrorism works. Instil terror, turn the people against their own government, and that's how the new war will be won.

In the years to come, when historians cast their eyes on this madness, which will be a more devastating war?