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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7894)	12/26/2006 11:46:22 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 15987

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. Again such individual decisions like learning a language or buying some consumer item are really very different then a political decision to change the way nations interact with each other. 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. Those are alliances or treaties, or cooperative organizations, but they don't have serious authority over the member nations except maybe the EU. Countries can be in any number of treaties, but I think the NUN would be a bit more than that.