...just a few highlights.
The global community is changing. The five nuclear powers each have their own issues domestically. Those domestic issues are not minor. At all. It is difficult to believe of the BRIC nations there are two that are permanent members of the UN Security Council. That tells me that any country develops it's national defense before it develops it's economy. Why is that noteworthy? Because we are seeing the very same pattern with nations that feel threatened by The West, namely North Korea and Iran. Those are the two unconquered powers listed in The Axis of Evil Speech. How does the USA justify such hate filled speech to two nations striving to improve their people's quality of life, but, chained to a reality of potential invasion by The West or worse? How is that justified? They have no security and yet The West expects them to change in the face of every reason not to. In a smaller sense that includes groups like Hamas, too.
The USA might try to first respect the nations they seek to end hostilities with and actually begin cultural and medical exchanges to benefit future good will.
The climate is a huge problem. It effects everything. Yet, when it comes to changing the way the world finds energy it seems to be the last issue on any international agenda outside the United Nations. That is simply wrong. The global community cannot simply trade carbon dioxide emissions for methane emissions. It won't work and we are all on the Spaceship Earth together. Kindly find incentives for every country to apply alternative energy techniques. They will do it for the same reasons Americans do, their children's future.
The global powers are becoming more sophisticated and as an example is China. There are also other nations coming online with incredible potential for economic growth and improving the quality of life to it's citizens to spawn there own middle class. With that reality is the fact these other countries will be able to afford a larger and more substantial military, including navies. The USA will be unable to be everywhere all the time. It will become increasingly impossible to be in the Middle East, within reach of Japan and South Korea's safety and securing NATO all at the same time. The USA has to set free it's allies to grow more of their own military and national security. It isn't a matter of imperialism, it is about the balance of power in the world. The USA can't do it alone anymore.
The Middle East has a strong potential to settle into a peaceful posture, but, it won't so long as countries are being forced into secular governments. It just won't work.
Every region of the world is different. Every culture within a region is different. The USA cannot demand a homogenized world in order to believe it has a strong national defense. It cannot demand every government be based in democracy and/or representative government or a melting pot to match that of The West. It can demand every nation seek the highest forms of human rights and quality of life. In that is peace and not homogenized replicas of the USA.
I don't believe The West has the right to demand religious pluralism in every country we have a relationship with for economic or national security reasons. It is completely unrealistic to demand the Middle East to practice the same democracy we have for over 2 centuries. They have a right to worship god in any manner they please so long as it doesn't demand deaths of others. The lines in the sands drawn so long ago won't stand and I find it unreasonable to expect The West to create war justified by such dogma. It is out of the question.
The USA might try to first respect the nations they seek to end hostilities with and actually begin cultural and medical exchanges to benefit future good will.
The climate is a huge problem. It effects everything. Yet, when it comes to changing the way the world finds energy it seems to be the last issue on any international agenda outside the United Nations. That is simply wrong. The global community cannot simply trade carbon dioxide emissions for methane emissions. It won't work and we are all on the Spaceship Earth together. Kindly find incentives for every country to apply alternative energy techniques. They will do it for the same reasons Americans do, their children's future.
The global powers are becoming more sophisticated and as an example is China. There are also other nations coming online with incredible potential for economic growth and improving the quality of life to it's citizens to spawn there own middle class. With that reality is the fact these other countries will be able to afford a larger and more substantial military, including navies. The USA will be unable to be everywhere all the time. It will become increasingly impossible to be in the Middle East, within reach of Japan and South Korea's safety and securing NATO all at the same time. The USA has to set free it's allies to grow more of their own military and national security. It isn't a matter of imperialism, it is about the balance of power in the world. The USA can't do it alone anymore.
The Middle East has a strong potential to settle into a peaceful posture, but, it won't so long as countries are being forced into secular governments. It just won't work.
Every region of the world is different. Every culture within a region is different. The USA cannot demand a homogenized world in order to believe it has a strong national defense. It cannot demand every government be based in democracy and/or representative government or a melting pot to match that of The West. It can demand every nation seek the highest forms of human rights and quality of life. In that is peace and not homogenized replicas of the USA.
I don't believe The West has the right to demand religious pluralism in every country we have a relationship with for economic or national security reasons. It is completely unrealistic to demand the Middle East to practice the same democracy we have for over 2 centuries. They have a right to worship god in any manner they please so long as it doesn't demand deaths of others. The lines in the sands drawn so long ago won't stand and I find it unreasonable to expect The West to create war justified by such dogma. It is out of the question.
