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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (7891)	12/23/2006 5:33:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Tim, I am planning exactly that: <Getting most of the world to agree to a common currency isn't going to be easy.> I think it will be a bit like English is the common language. Imagine trying to create such a linqua franca. It would seem a huge task. But American has gradually become that entity. People simply decided that it was the best second language for them to learn. French fell by the wayside with economic decline [relative]. Esperanto was too limited in usage. I don't really have a NUN plan with 100 First Laws. I just thought a common currency is a rather obvious way of integrating interests. I think that will happen irrespective of any NUN, so it was a poor example really. I think we can have competing geopolitical entities, just as we do now. There is NATO, the EU, the British Commonwealth, NAFTA, APEC etc and they overlap to a greater or lesser extent and all all aimed at broader identity and interests than simply national ones. Mqurice