[NewRomeTacitus]

From the article hedgetrimmer provided a link to:

"Here then, in sum, is Bush's vision: a bicultural U.S. as the leading power in a bicultural, continental, free-market, free-trading bloc, unobstructed by national borders and moving toward a common citizenship, whose other member-states would give broad diplomatic and even military support to Washington in wider world affairs."

As diplomatic and military support from countries that regularly vote against us in the U.N. is some sort of fantasy, there is no benefit in this for the United States. This "Free Trade" religion is totally out of hand when our sovereignty is placed on its altar. We need to adhere to "Fair Trade" while we still have the means to do so.

[hedgetrimmer]

whose other member-states would give broad diplomatic and even military support to Washington in wider world affairs."

This would solve a very thorny problem for the current administration. If we could enlist the military help of 32 other countries in this hemisphere, no need for a draft to maintain all places we have peacekeeping and anti-terrorism forces. However, it would not guarantee loyalty to American principles.

Come to think of it, if the liberal press hates whats happening to Iraqi prisoners with our own MPs what will they think when the MPs from various communist South American countries come in to help?