New Year! Hope or Gloom?

As the year opens up to a new year of 2009, admist the celebration, there is the bleak outlook in economic growth and also the starting of war in Both Parkistan and India as well as the Israel and Hamas war. The war has already starting to show casualties particuarly on Hamas side. I think this poltical/war game is a "adult" version of computer games that we are playing. Aimless killing of one another for no reason at all such as Warcraft 3 and such. Except that this involves lives.
Sure in History, we learn that normally the stronger side in terms of manpower and armour will win the war. But, this senseless wars will only harm countries in the long run and create a deep sense of hatred with each other, so i strongly condemn these wars between countries. Sun Tzu's Art off War states that the country should absolute never go to war except for last resort.Moreover with the spiralling economy, its only going to further worsen the impact the fiancianal crisis on the world.

Now i think the UN is just a figurehead with no one in absloute control of the situation of the world, first it didnt defused the US-Led invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now i think it will also sit on the fence for the Israel situation. Kind of ironic as the main purpose is to promote world peace, but now nobody cares about the Hamas, as they are rated as a terrorist organisation. It is typical of people to create law to make outliers such as the Hamas organisation out of the world and as outcasts. I believe that without Social peace and harmony in the world, there would not be a progress in both economy and for the better of mankind. After all we are possibly the only species on Planet earth that has devastated the environment in terms of nuclear warfare and bombs to kill each other. We are all classified as Homo Sapiens, why cant we all coexist peacefully?

Now as we enter the year the year 2009, I pray that the Singapore economy would recover so i can get a job by the time im out of national service =p