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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (268)	3/18/2003 4:09:22 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Respond to of 7834

The world is too interconnected. The concept of "this is mine, that is yours" and the Nation-state was convenient and necessary in the Middle Ages to finally lay a groundwork to stop incessant warfare. And I mean incessant, in Germany and Italy. The "nation-state" reached its ultimate refinement as a tool of the colonial era, where the inability of local people to coalesce into a "nation" justified colonizing them by Europeans. But it just doesn't apply in a world of television, radio, Internet; Of people travelling to anyplace on the globe in two days. Italians live indefinitely in Switzerland; Portugese and Croats work there, they compose 5-10% of the population. "TCNs" (third country nationals) live and work in the Gulf in -all- those countries. The colonial era is over. You cannot dismiss the Islamic conundrum with "sovereignty is all we got". If you DO NOT respect the sovereignty of those you like (such as what happens between the US and Canada, or the US and Mexico) the consequences are transparent. And that transforms the issue of sovereignty to remainder to a refuge of tyrants.