No, it's not okay, but that's how international relations work in the absence of a dinkum UN that is based on Libertarian principles: <So all I have to do is seek permission from someone I respect and it's alright to try and kill you and take everything you and your family own? > That was more fear than respect - Saddam feared the USA. He didn't do a big line in respect. Fear and dominance were his measurements.
That's how it works in NZ - the government promises the indigent a share of my wealth and efforts, the bludgers go for it, the government then sends whatever force is required around to my place to collect what is legally their's, including killing me if needs be. Voting to have Negro slaves or other types of workers against their will does not make it right just because it's called democracy.
In democracy, the winning gang gets to rob the other side and "redistribute the wealth". China is doing well because they are more capitalist than the so-called "Free World" which is only free by comparison with a very low standard of freedom.
How people came by their ownership is a reasonable question.
It seems reasonable that the wealth of Kuwait be spread over a larger population than that encompassed by a British Empire line on the map - especially since so many people love to denigrate said empire as having no redeeming merits.
But even if that is not reasonable, there's no particular reason that my life, limb or wealth be put to the defence of those owning those ill-gotten gains; not in the absence of some sensible UN Federal constitutional agreement.
While I have been a fan club member of the UN for decades, it is so badly constituted that it's hardly worth the paper it's written on. When Syria, Libya, Tunisia, North Korea, Indonesia and all the rest vote to overthrow Israel, it's nothing but a joke. Contemptible.
Tradable Citizenship is the missing link which would make democracy a rational form of government.
Mqurice
[Hawk, the discussion is okay here because it's about what makes the world tick and the money flow - TJ would moan if it was too tedious.] |
