58 years since the Holocaust

It is one bit of several pieces of history that still chills me to the bone. I agree with the article I read (Not sure it's the one you linked to) that Bush and Kim Jong-Il should go visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Gautam --- Unfortunately the human race has been thru many periods of mass killings in the last 58 years. Perhaps not on the same volume, but ethnic cleasing is still with us in Asia, Africa & Europe. From Korea on up to The Gulf.
Hatred, bigotry, greed and power are still being utilised against many people, in a lot of countries

I'll remember with you, G.

It is horrible to remember how those hapless people suffered 58 years ago. I tried to close my eyes and envision the day when hundreds of thousands of Japanese were decimated in just several seconds. Even worse are the ripple effects caused by the fallout. The tragedy is going on with more people inflicted with various radioactive diseases. Kids are deformed the first day they come to this world, men and women are constantly found out to have contracted leukemia and families are being torn asunder by loss of their members. It 's been 58 years, half a century ago. We had thought of consigning it to the oblivion but the cataclysm often reapears afresh in our memory, a painful recollection of the history. We want some change, don't we? We have paid a price high enough that is likely to inhibit us from hurting each other. Blood having been shed and tears been cried, we want it no more. We want it to change to the interest of all mankind. But how can we change the way of our thinking that has been inured to self-centeredness?

International politics has been dirty since the first day countries realized they were not the only ones in this ball-like place. Power has been well pursued, and life has been cruelly tramped. The whole world was just like casino where several people were frenetically hurling their stakes and waiting for the history to deal the cards. Some were ruled out and some remained.

But little has ever changed.

I am wondering how far we can go.