To: Graystone who wrote (109198 ) 7/31/2003 10:31:42 PM From: Sidney Reilly Read Replies (1) | Respond to Quote from "Foreign Affairs", the journal published by the Council on Foreign RelationsThere is going to be no steady progress in civilization or self-government among the more backward peoples until some kind of international system is created which will put an end to the diplomatic struggles incident to the attempt of every nation to make itself secure....The real problem today is that of world government. There is no indication that American public opinion, for example, would approve the establishment of a super state, or permit American membership in it. In other words, time - a long time - will be needed before world government is politically feasible...This time element might seemingly be shortened so far as American opinion is concerned by an active propaganda campaign in this country.... There is no longer a question of whether or not there will be world government by the year 2,000. As I see it, the questions we should be addressing to ourselves are: how it will come into being - by cataclysm , drift, more or less rational design - and whether it will be totalitarian , benignly elitist, or participatory....the probabilities being in that order. cataclysm as the writer suggested to speed things up. And it did speed things up immensely. It's too convenient to be dismissed as random terrorism. Fake terror.free.freespeech.org
