Which way is North?

Over the past few weeks I have been thinking about our moral compass. The compass by which we as the human race define right and wrong. It seems to me over the past few weeks and months that this has shifted somewhat. As a matter of fact it has probably been shifting subtly over the past few years but now it seems to be on a bigger scale.

I look at the situation of the Americans sneaking into Pakistan to assassinate Bin Laden and dump his body at sea. Is this really the right way for a "superpower" to behave? A country to whom most of the world for all ends and purposes turns to for guidance, whether willingly or not, consciously or unconsciously? If Nigeria decides to send troops into Cameroon to wipe out a village who would be able to stand up and say this is not right?

Then there's the IMF boss who allegedly committed a rape. Since then he has been forced to resign, there has been a scramble for his job!!, he is locked up in Rikers Island (trust me that place is not for toddlers) and all the while we have not even heard the man's side of the story. I mean he could be guilty as sin but what is the point in having courts if the decision of guilt is made at the point of arrest?

And what about the killings of civilians in the Middle East who are just asking for the right to eat, live and love? What morality allows them to be slaughtered so that those in power can continue to be in power?

And in Nigeria it seems the compass has really been thrown on its head. What area of life can one point to and say that it is the way it should be? From Pastors buying private jets off the tithes of the suffering masses, to the violence problems in the North, the disappearance of billions not only from Government but banks? Wherefore health, education or welfare?

Somebody please tell me - Which way is North?