I agree in principle, Sir Doom, but can the US be trusted to to restrain it's predatory predilections; its oportunism? Can we afford to demilitarize? Will the military-industrial-political complex allow it? -- it's insinuated itself into the economics of every state. No politician dare oppose it and expect to be re-elected.
What we need is an extra-national superpower, with allegiance only to humanity; an actual, functional UN.
I think a fundamental part of the problem is that so many are quick to judge the actions of groups or organizations or companies without pointing out and seeking to deal with the real problem: human nature.
Human beings are selfish creatures and feature an immense ability to be corrupted. The answer is not to give power here and there hoping that along the way we will elect good enough politicians to represent us. There are some who believe that we restrain government through elections. A smart politician, seeing that, will then remove the peoples' ability to affect his status by ensuring that his being in or out of office is dependent on the powerful and the corporate.
Some others believe that the way to restrain government is with violence. The same clever politician will then seek to remove all ability for a people to rise up violently against its government.
The result is a government that is run by the ambitions of its members and unchecked by those things that were put in place to keep it under control. In fear, our nation has given power to the government that is nearly unstoppable. In fear we forsake ideas for temporary safety. After all, a government that can be overthrown by its people can surely be overthrown by its enemies, right?
The solution is two-fold. On the one hand, Americans must demonstrate that they are willing to act as a powerful enough force to stop the government from corruption. On the other they must accept that defense is a national obligation. Not something that can b relegated to some far off military force of volunteers who fight to keep the whole safe.
Why do we have enemies? Because we have allowed ourselves to become like a wild dog, out of control, causing damage and destruction wherever we go. The more we continue to blame the Democrats, the Republicans, the government, or whatever name for something that isn't ourselves, the more we propagate the problem.
To see why we are where we are all one must do is look into the mirror.
There is a reason the UN fails. Because every single member of it is just like the US. They don't give a rat's butt about peace or freedom. They just want to slice off the biggest piece of pie they can possible get for themselves. The US just happens to be holding the pie and the slicer at the moment.
It isn't important what we call the organization in charge. It isn't important which nations agree or disagree with what we do. What is important is that we act righteously for justice and freedom AND NOTHING ELSE. Then everyone who disputes us will only be painting themselves a villain.
It isn't likely to happen though. We hide behind the subjectivity of it. We can't 'really' know what righteousness is, right? So why try? Might as well just get ours while we can. Horse crap. Its shameful and sickening. Not just for the USA but for every free nation with power and influence that does nothing with it but promote their own self-interest.
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