Finally, after generating dozens of civilians' casualties - most of them children - in a Southern Lebanese province, Qana, Israel, rather reluntantly, agreed to suspend air attacks for 48 hours. Ms. Rice who contributed official visits around the Middle East didn't display her nation's willingness to urgently involve in the rapidly worsened situation in the region, now seems to hesitantly moves to cease the bloodshed event.
Observing a series of the U.S.'s aggressions around the world that have taken place in last decade, I cannot help but agonizing not only over the misfortunate events in the Middle East but also over any possible chances of having similar misfortunes in our neigboring country. Since the U.S. President George W. Bush proudly introduced his sensational usage of language by using a terminology "Axes of Evil" indicating regimes sponsoring terrorist activities including Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, his republican government rather diligently has taken direct and/or indirect actions to "completely" immobilize the rouge regimes. Not only Iran and Iraq but other neigboring Muslim nations also became targets in amid of the U.S.'s agressive missions to sweep out the region. The United Nations, the organization that is supposed to maintain peace on earth not taking any sides in any conflictual issues, has obviously fallen into a mere substitutional institue to pass on and give silent consensus to the U.S.'s hostile foreign policies. Among power struggles of monstrous nations wrapped themselves as protectors of "democracy" or freedom fighters, the only victims were peace corp workers who dedicated their lives for sustaining peace and children whose only sin was being born in this defective world. Today, I would like to call on those who still have slight bits of consciousness, "what on earth is going on here in this world, today?" "Killing the most impeccable and benefiting the most sinful in return, is it how we aim to achieve an ideal world order that we would like to live in??"
Well, now this sounds a lot like an article from the Hanryerae. However, how easy and beautiful the world would turn out if things are this simple? An English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley questioned in his famous "Ode to the West Wind," If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?. I sympathize his argument that sometimes, we need to endure a winter while having a wishful thinking of a spring coming soon. But wouldn't it be rather silly to deliberately fabricate a winter for a spring that nobody knows if it really comes and/or if there's any spring at all.
