Where am I going? And what am I doing in a handbasket?

Boy things are falling apart all over.... let's review....

1. Israel is actively bombing neighborhoods in Beirut, Tripoli, and Gaza. Hamas and Hezbollah are firing largely unguided missiles, and interesting little exploding drones back.... and this just in the UK Royal Navy is now off to Lebanon to do something....
2. Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan forces are in the process of utterly dismantling a peace process.
3. Pakistan is barely holding off Sunni/Shia strife, after a car bomb killed a Shia cleric. The violence is escalating as several people were killed in Monsoon rains.
4. Afghanistan is going downhill, and fast.
5. East Timor's indedpendence is again at stake as rebel forces threaten the government just as the ministers are being sworn in.
6. Chechnya remains a violent and oppressed region (despite the lack of headline news from there).
7. North Korea is lobbing missiles at, or near Japan - it's closest U.S. Proxy - and the UN just voted to impose sanctions.... those worked so well in Iraq. But at least the UN is showing some action in what has become a frighteningly bad era of PR with the American public (sponsored by Mr. Bolton's vile behavior - of course, so it all goes back to our brainless wonder of a President).
8. Cote d'Ivoire is on the verge of, what for the region would be disasterous, civil war.
9. Zimbabwe and Ethiopia are roiling under internal strife.
10. The prison/gang violence in Sao Paulo Brazil still continues - months after the initial rioting.
11. And let's not forget that horrific blast in Mombai (Bombay). Of course there are good stories from the rubble as well.
12. ... and let's not forget Darfur.... genocide people, GENOCIDE


... oh and 41 people in Indonesia are dead from Bird Flu...

And on a positive note
1. Uganda and representatives of the LRA and other groups are finally having talks....
2. And their neighbors the DRC are trading guns for bikes...
3. Indonesia has agreed to some form of independence for Aceh.