By Maurice R. (Papa Maury) Clark February 23, 2012 (SSNA) -- To
a disaster weary world, the litany of death and destruction
emanating from South Sudan becomes hard to bear. With so much of
the western world being called to account for its own economic
missteps, and political failures, the agonizing struggles of a
remote new nation become easy to ignore. We do so at our peril!
Comparing the current world economic and political realities to
the 1930's and the risk of world conflagration is no stretch.
The economic excesses of the 1920s versus those of the late
1990s through the first few years of the new century differ
mostly by orders of magnitude. And falling from a greater
economic height will likely make the ultimate landing even more
difficult to bear. Meanwhile, lesser tyrants recognize weakness
and exploit that weakness for territorial gain and profit. To a
very large extent, Adolph Hitler was the creation of a Germany
overwhelmed by the burden of debt resulting from World War l.
While the rest of the wo