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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (69736)1/29/2003 2:31:37 AM
From: MSI  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It's much worse than even where Kolko leaves it.

Re: Bill Joy's "The Future Doesn't Need Us", technology for weaponizing daily life is "fissiporous" as well, exponentially so. Eventually kids in a basement will be able to create a doomsday plague or a dirty or even clean nuke.

That's the future to keep in mind when planning ferocious attacks to destroy innocent beings, A-rabs or not. Flying body parts won't deter these Columbine-of-the-Future kids. Looks too much like the newest first-person "Armaggedon" Nintendo game.

The true path to security for the US and the world lay in counter-weaponizing, rather than weaponizing every facet of foreign policy.

As Chris Matthews says, "Hate is the biggest weapon of mass destruction"

Agreed, on the rest of Kolko's tenets (and "fissiparousness" as well...)

The world since 1990 has become much more fissiparous economically and politically. Bipolarity in world military relations ended with the demise of communism but the world is more unstable and dangerous than ever. More nations have great firepower--aided in part by US exports accounting for more than two-fifths of the world's arms trade since the late '90s--and the spread of weapons of mass destruction has continued unabated.

Re: "Pax Americana", what's term to mean the precise opposite?
That's what 's being rapidly accomplished.
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