Letter: World in uproar, and only ones smiling are the Chinese

Nick Constant, Fort Pierce


Most young people never talk about the major problems we face. I wonder if they simply cannot bear to consider them.

Syrian rebels are about to take over Syria. Meanwhile, the Muslim right is stealing the revolution in Egypt. Libya is completely fractured into pro- and anti-Gadhafi towns, and factions remain defiant and uncooperative.

We are pulling out of a "postwar" Iraq now and leaving in civil war. We are retreating from Afghanistan, leaving it to the Taliban, battles against whom major powers have been retreating from for centuries.

Revolutions are under way or pending in many other Middle Eastern and African nations.

Palestinians are virtually under siege and totally oppressed, while their oppressor sees no solution to peace except to continue hostilities.

America is torn in half and civil war or armed resistance, economic and civil unrest could be near. I'm not saying it will happen, but it is a slight possibility.

Lots of other very negative situations exist worldwide. Meanwhile, we are definitely experiencing global warming. If you believe the latest science, it is developing much faster than anticipated, with predictions that today's high school seniors will be dealing with massive flooding, causing millions to flee their homes.

And so our fate is now in the hands of the planet's new Superman superpower, the People's Republic of China.

Dear Chairman, General Secretary, President Xi Jinping, please forgive us for the sins we have committed. Now that we are broke and busted and divided with hate and therefore unable to function any more, we ask you to return us to the Golden Age of the Peacock, or whatever it was called, and deliver us from our own evil, or at least smite the other side to a bloody pulp.