re: EU as model for World Government:
<But they can't even manage to agree on a constitution...>
True. Many times, on many issues, they talk and talk, and can't come to agreement. In the Bad Old Days, the next step would likely be war, if it was an issue of crucial interest to some nation. Now, the next step is, they keep talking. Endless talking is better than endless killing.
<you want the UN to come together like the EU?>
Actually, I'm ambivalent about the UN. As it exists now, it is mainly a:
1. all-inclusive talking-club (= General Assembly)
2. rubber-stamp for U.S. military adventures (= Security Council, when they agree with us)
3. irrelevant and inactive (= Security Council when they don't agree with us)
In order to function as a World Government, it would have to:
1. expel all nations that are violating the UN Charter.
2. reform the Security Council, so it reflects current realities (Permanent Seats for India and Japan, maybe giving a seat to a Latin American and/or Muslim nation, taking away one of the European seats)
3. have a dedicated military force, that answers to the Security Council (a few of our mothballed Tridents?)
4. have administrative control in the hands of those who pay the bills
It might be easier to set up a new organization, than to try and make the above changes in the UN. |
