*** From the sidelines *** Tekuboi-san, I see that Colinisation Powell has adopted my philosophy and only a year after you first raised the matter. I told you there are no sidelines. Now it's official: quote.bloomberg.com
<...President George W. Bush has said repeatedly during the U.S.- led military campaign in Afghanistan, aimed at uprooting terrorists blamed for last year's attacks, that all nations will be considered either allies or enemies in the war on terrorism.
``In this global campaign against terrorism, no country has the luxury of remaining on the sidelines,'' said Secretary of State Colin Powell in today's annual report. ``There are no sidelines.''... >
GeorgeW, Colin, Condoleezza and you are gradually coming around to my point of view. It's a shame it takes the destruction of great big buildings and thousands of people to get people thinking about what the heck to do about all this stuff. Now we have India and Pakistan ready to go at it, with nukes as a last resort.
Anyway, now that it's official USA policy [somewhat belatedly] that there are no sidelines, after some intellectual grunting and puffing, they will realize that a corollary of that is that the USA is not on the sidelines either. We are all in it together.
The USA is in the midst of 6 billion messy people and nearly 200 countries in an anarchical international system which the USA is NOT providing much lead in civilizing, despite being the biggest, toughest, richest and having the wherewithal and strategic interest [it's good to use some jargon buzzword stuff] to provide that guidance.
Soon, GeorgeW, Condominium Rice, Colinization Powell, Gideon Rose, the Council on Foreign Relations and all that crowd, will be promoting "We the Sheople" in a reconstituted United Nations designed in a more federal and democratic way than the present anachronistic Big Power geopolitical nationalistic form. Too often, political and military alpha-male chimpoids go for atavistic head-hacking and bulk murder in an attempt to get their way or revenge real or imagined earlier evil.
It will take people a while to get their heads around a new UN design, so I'm not expecting any early action and it might be too much for them to cope with. Heck, I have trouble persuading those in the FADG so it'll take a while.
But eventually they'll see the way to Peace, Light and Harmony ... sometimes it takes a longer time than I first think [like CDMA ruling the waves].
People who claim to like democracy would, you'd think, be in the vanguard of the promotion of democracy on a global scale. People who like rule of law, would, you'd think, be writing up some proposed international constitutional law based on tried and true principles. People who like civilization, would, you'd think, be promoting management and protection of private property within secure national boundaries.
From the battlefield,
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