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To: fangle
Oh, dear. Anyone desiring to understand how we came to be where we are need only read this article - I do believe the good Professor hit nearly every internationalist talking point in the space of it.

The real difficulty is the tacit assumption that multilateralism has had any particular success in advancing anything at all - security, prosperity, aid in time of disaster - the multilateralist approach is to build institutions, the unilateralist approach is to take action. Building institutions is a laudable pursuit if the objective of international relations is to house and feed a class of professional busybodies and control freaks. What it does for the people who are its ostensible beneficiaries is quite another, and lesser, thing.

What is evolving is not an international system at all, intentions despite. It is a tabula rasa in which countries such as Russia and China (and France and a host of others) act strictly in self-interest while bleating loudly that the United States must not be permitted to do so. Any institutionalism that purports to be international must supply one set of rules and behaviors for all - this is precisely what institutions such as the UN pretend to do and signally, categorically, and completely fail to deliver. Nor is it any particular merit to ensure that the membership of chronically anti-American organizations consists of increasing numbers of anti-American Americans.

Institutions that depend on voluntary participation by their membership and cheat on even-handedness will fail, and they all do so. The rampant anti-Americanism within them is the result of the dictum that their principle calling is to level the playing field by acting consistently against the interest of the most influential member of the moment. The notion that such actions shift power is true; that they shift power from the individual to the institution is patently false. And the other members know it, which explains such absurdities as the "Non-Aligned" movement, which is, of course, anything but.

Were it not for the existence of an international administrative and diplomatic class that seems to have every intention of transforming itself into a ruling class, the obvious lack of success, accountability, and moral sanction would have kicked these institutions into the dustbin of failed ideas long ago. That they survive is a testament to the persistence of this class, a triumph of hope over experience, and a sad proof of the nearly endless credulity of a deluded public.

19 posted on 06/17/2007 1:53:09 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
What is evolving is not an international system at all, intentions despite. It is a tabula rasa in which countries such as Russia and China (and France and a host of others) act strictly in self-interest while bleating loudly that the United States must not be permitted to do so. Any institutionalism that purports to be international must supply one set of rules and behaviors for all - this is precisely what institutions such as the UN pretend to do and signally, categorically, and completely fail to deliver. Nor is it any particular merit to ensure that the membership of chronically anti-American organizations consists of increasing numbers of anti-American Americans.

A temporary and intermediate step, merely.

There will be 0.0000000000% comfort in any truthfulness of your statements above.

The tyrannical global government IS LOOMING in all it's horror.

It WILL come to pass. Scripture is quite clear about that.

It WILL be a time worse than ever in history past and worse than ever in the future. Scripture is quite clear about that.

The shreds of the Constitution and our military and other might are being used to set the stage for the global government as well as for the trashing of our beloved USA. They cannot have the USA remain strong--it would be in the way of the global government.

But I don't expect you to believe me . . . yet. Events will change your perspective. Sadly.

47 posted on 06/18/2007 8:52:57 AM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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