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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: paul_philp who wrote (89668)4/3/2003 5:41:03 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The idea of the western world driving to mold the rest of the world in it's image is everybit as vile, insulting and ignorant as the idea that Islam is out to convert the western world.

I know Paul doesn't read these posts so I'm typing for whomsoever else might read them. The notion that the idea "of the western world driving to mold the rest of the world" is "vile" and "insulting" and "ignorant" and thus worth lambasting a poster is over the top.

It is an assertion which can be argued about. But hardly one that deserves demonization. Parts of it are, in my view, not, in fact, debateable.

First, globabilization these days spreads US culture everywhere, the often remarked McDonald phenom or the Coke phenom. Second, the self professed aim of the neoconservative movement's foreign policy is to export certain US institutions--US democratic institutions being the primary one but also the present idealized version of US capitalism. Sounds to me as if it could easily be read as wishing to "mold the rest of the world in its image."

Those are factual assertions. One could hardly argue they are vile, etc. stereotypes. Now such expansion of US models can well be considered not too happy a thing. But given Paul's professed belief in the neoconservative project, I gather that would not be his problem.

Puzzling.
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