Goldsnow,
You seem to make this a war between NATO and Serbia, but it's not.
It's war of ideas. It's war between a the concept of human rights and freedom combined with tolerance for everyone as an individual, and the evil concept of ethnic superiority and intolerance.
The ideas emcompassed in the US constitution don't just belong to Americans. The constitution doesn't belong just for Anglo-Saxons or any particular ethnicity. It is the current culmanation of hundreds, if not thousands of years of philosophic thought and human intellectual progress towards the eventual goal of everyone being able to live in freedom and security.
It's a framework towards a future where ALL humanity, in whatever nation or ethnic grouping have the right to freedom from fear and political and moral representation.
It does not designate freedom ONLY for whites, blacks, poles, jews, serbs, ... etc, etc, etc, but for all humanity.
Call me idealist, but our founding fathers wrote a document that encapsulated the desires and goals of every human being. They probably never even understood the set of events they were putting in play 200 hundred years ago. But the ideas are certainly worth fighting for and the goals worth aspiring to, especially when we consider the alternative. In fact, it is imperative that the US fight for the proliferation of these ideas for its own survival.
One day the world will be governed by a system that contains the framework of the US constitution. And like the the diverse population of this country, we will all discover that those things we have in common far outweigh our differences.
In sum, if we're unwilling to fight for the basic ideas emcompassed in the US constitution, in order that ALL people worldwide enjoy those freedoms, then they are really so many hollow words without any real force of meaning.
If imposing the idea of freedom and tolerance upon those who have no respect for either is not a worthy cause, then we should pack up our tents, withdraw to our borders and let the world blow itself to hell, along with us to boot.
Call it preachy, or proselyzing on my part, but that it is why the I believe the US must remain engaged internationally in opposing totalitarianism. Our methods aren't perfect and there is only so much we can or should do, but the cause still remains noble, no matter what Bejing, Moscow, or Belgrade would purport.
Regards,
Ron |
