Happy New Year 2009

Once again after the pomp and circumstance and the glorification of ringing in the New Year at 1 millionth of a second past midnight, and chorus's of Auld Lang Syne have been sung until the early hours of 2009, we still have the continual fighting in Afghanistan and around the world.
If it can be remembered, the First World War was heralded as the WAR TO END ALL WARS, we then had the Second World War which ended around 1945, the Arab/Israeli War 1948, the Malayan Conflict from 1948 until 1960 when Malaya wanted independence from the British, the Korean War 1950. 1959 started the Vietnam War, Laos & Cambodian War and the Massacre of the Pol Pot regime on its own people in lasting until 1975.
The Yom Kippur war in 1973, the Suez Canal with Egypt, 1956. There are so many I cannot remember them all until the war with Britain and Argentina in the South Atlantic and when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, then we move back, if we can by not forgetting all other wars and conflicts in between, and still going, to Iraq and back to Afghanistan again.
What a way to treat the world!!
All the successive governments vying for their little piece of history and the world. Not really, although they purport to say they do, caring about the little man, woman and child stuck in the middle of it all.
In Israel and Gaza today, one can see the senseless firing of rockets by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, from the middle of their cities packed with families who, no doubt, wish to have a peaceful existence, but have very little chance as the Israeli bombers go overhead and drop their bombs on Hamas targets.
The Hamas wish to get Israel off the Arab lands which were forcebly taken by war in 1948, with the help of the British Government, and Israel sending their bombers and eventually troops into Gaza to rout the Hamas. The circle continues round and around.
Shocked Israelis have announced that the Hamas rockets have now been felt 48 kilometers inside Israel near to Beersheba, shocking residence there.
At the funeral for the 20 people who died in an earlier Israeli attack, senior Hamas figure, Fathi Hammad said "We will not rest until we destroy the Zionist entity". Reported the BBC News.
So ring in the New Year and, no-doubt, the governments around the world will keep the Old.
Peoples around the world should never forget the words of the old Scottish song 'Should auld acquaintance be forgot' otherwise we shall all be biting the dust.