is it not better that a ruthless, evil dictator like Saddam Hussein has been removed from power through American unilateralism
I shall withhold judgment on that until I see his replacement. So far, the signs have not been encouraging, but admittedly, these are early days.
evil dictator like Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was clearly not about to win the All Round Nice Guy award. But be careful about using a word like 'evil'. Regardless of what Bush and co. would have us believe, the world is far from being as black and white as a Star Wars movie.
a lot more beneficial externalities for humankind as a whole than it ever has before
Explain to me how Guantanamo, visa denials and steel quotas have been better for us than the Marshall Plan. Indeed, is something not wrong with the basic system upon which the world works when the best we can hope for is the odd 'beneficial externality'? Also, how is it beneficial for the world that America has pulled out of treaties relating to WMDs (multiple), an international criminal court, the environment, while weakening the U.N. to a body to the point where it is only called upon if America can't do things exactly its own way by brute force?
now we're ready for what I will term the golden era of global affairs and world politics
Funny, I vaguely remember reading about people living in unprecedented prosperity before WWI, although I could well be wrong. Either way, I look upon your last claim with extreme skepticism. Before Bush came to power, I genuinely believed things were getting better, everywhere. Now I feel that more things are getting worse than otherwise.
Re: Regardless of what the
I shall withhold judgment on that until I see his replacement. So far, the signs have not been encouraging, but admittedly, these are early days.
evil dictator like Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was clearly not about to win the All Round Nice Guy award. But be careful about using a word like 'evil'. Regardless of what Bush and co. would have us believe, the world is far from being as black and white as a Star Wars movie.
a lot more beneficial externalities for humankind as a whole than it ever has before
Explain to me how Guantanamo, visa denials and steel quotas have been better for us than the Marshall Plan. Indeed, is something not wrong with the basic system upon which the world works when the best we can hope for is the odd 'beneficial externality'? Also, how is it beneficial for the world that America has pulled out of treaties relating to WMDs (multiple), an international criminal court, the environment, while weakening the U.N. to a body to the point where it is only called upon if America can't do things exactly its own way by brute force?
now we're ready for what I will term the golden era of global affairs and world politics
Funny, I vaguely remember reading about people living in unprecedented prosperity before WWI, although I could well be wrong. Either way, I look upon your last claim with extreme skepticism. Before Bush came to power, I genuinely believed things were getting better, everywhere. Now I feel that more things are getting worse than otherwise.