We need something like what the UN is supposed to be, as a parliament between nations ... just as the species developed tribal councils to decide affairs between members in place of having the chief decide all, just as we developed national parliaments to decide things ourselves in place of all power being in the hands of the king or tsar or kaiser, so now we try to develop a parliament where we can decide affairs without all being forced to kneel to the most militarily powerful national ruler du jour
The UN exists because it is the closest we have to a parliament of nations, so far .... it's not very useful as is, a point i made first in our exchange by the way, because i could see where you were headed .... sure the UN is flawed, well the thing to do then is to improve it, or turf it out and develop a working institution that does the job .... the alternative is today, that all of us on this planet fall into line and obey direct orders of Washington, and that is not going to happen, it's not displaying a grasp of human nature to expect that to happen
So you see it is pretty simple Hawk, 'At it's foundation' ... couple little minor gaps in your numbered points i notice here, like for instance what WMDs, but these have been discussed ad nauseam already, and the parliament of nations is far more important than Iraq ever was .... your neocons will be judged in the end not on which individuals they shot or rolled tanks over, but rather their effect on international cooperation toward such a working parliament, and so far they're not doing well, are they |
