Ron, Fair enough- but ignoring 2,000,000 deaths in the Sudan hits my conscience.
Yep.. pretty tragic. And so was the massacre of 2 million people in Cambodia under Pol Pot, and the millions who died in China's cultural revolution, and the millions who died under Russia's forced collectivization programs in the '20s. But we can't intervene everywhere or we would be constantly at war with the dictators around the world.
There's a great moral in this Kosovo/Chinese espionage situation to me anyway- and it's the reassertion of nationalism, and the decline of economic globalism view of the world. Nation, state, community in the end are important to each and every one of us....
And I think Gustave would agree with you. He fears, and I think with good reason, that Serbia's nationalism might spark renewed efforts by nationalist groups throughout Europe, undermining the EU's stability.
So while I'm not entirely against an eventual economic globalism, I'm sure as heck not willing to compromise America's prosperity or American's inalienable rights, to achieve it.
Let the rest of the world adapt our multi-ethnic model and then we can talk seriously about empowering the UN as a world government.
Either that, or exclude non-democratic nations who don't practice free trade or guarantees of human rights. (wouldn't that make a stir in Bejing??.. :0)
Regards,
Ron |
