We live in dangerous times. In the Far East, North Korea again is causing concern. The Indian sub-continent has strife in India and Pakistan and the on-going war in nearby Afghanistan. The Near East (although it is called now the Middle East) has seen tensions rise between Israel and Turkey and there is the brooding presence of Iran.
Southern Europe is a tinderbox of civil unrest as a consequence of economic and financial chaos developing in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. The future of the euro and even of the European Union is under threat.
And there is the constant threat of terrorism.
I have the same sense of foreboding I felt at the time of the Cuba missile crisis.
KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
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