Nice thoughts and wish it could happen, but.....
We would lose all markets for Coke and Jeans, for drugs and cotton, for feed stocks and military hardware.
Some American companies have factories in hundreds of foreign countries
And we would lose the money from foreign students who come to our universities, and lose the chance to teach them advantages of democratic government or how to implement changes when they return home.
But the world could use a leader. Not a softie who would get walked upon or dismissed , but a man to set a direction based upon human rights to liberty and justice.
To apply a firm hand when countries take a wrong turn with genocide, support of terrorists , or development of banned weapons.
Kofi Annan would not qualify. A Muslim cleric would not qualify. Even the Pope would not qualify.
How about Chirac, or Putin, or Tony Blair?
Whatever the choice it would not be unanimous.
And the job, from the American standpoint, would have to protect the US economy which seems , apart from Japan, to be the only nation with enough money/funding to do an effective job. Would Chirac do that?
When voting in this election, consider which contender has the best potential as a world leader since there may be some hellish times ahead unless the Muslims change their attitude about destroying us non-believers.
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