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World Politics

I have only recently begun to fully grasp the extent to which GWB missed an opportunity that comes as often as a flood in a desert.

Encouraging the maturation of the "world culture" towards a global society with fully respected international organizations who's members work in concert, with established agreements, procedures, & visions - no matter how idealistic they may seem today - should be a top priority for every government, especially for the US government, today's single world power.

My insistence of this goal for US governments has various roots - the strongest being the impossibility for the US to maintain its Superpower position indefinitely. Should the transition away from Superpower status take any shape other than towards internationalism, the US will likely suffer greatly as the transfer of power occurs. The US will not go down without a fight & it will be in that fight that small cuts will become gaping wounds.

It was on 9/11 that the world was formally made aware: enough of the world community (mainly Western / 1st-world nations) was no longer interested in full-on, formal wars between nations - or at least to morons like myself who are too idealistic... I believed that 9/11 was an opportunity for the first-world (at least) to come together and acknowledge that wars where lethal force is used in a highly targeted fashion, with the express result being large-scale slaughter of the "enemy" will mainly be carried out in the following two examples:

1. Guerrila armies who don't have or respect political borders, and believe lethal force is the only way to get their message across & achieve their goals. Thus engaging formal armies into war.

2. Third-world / rouge-nations piss off first-world nations (or vice-versa) and one bombs the other.

The second scenario is unfortunatley the track that our fearless leader has chosen to take. Had he chosen to acknowledge the first scenario, he could have done so much to further the development of an international culture. An international force could have been developed - which can fight guerillas (aka terrorists) on their terms. Moving across borders without going through protocol, tracking down and breaking apart the networks - working in concert with many governments.

Unfortunately GWB chose to polarize the world much as he has done domestically. He has built up barriers, destroying any sense of unity - the key to bring people together.

I guess my only solace is that the Internet is spreading faster and faster every day. And the Internet will eventually break down the barriers that Bush has been putting up.

I'll be adding to this post over time, as I have time to mull this over a bit more.

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