[i]No one knows nothing about me I'm guessing I'll just keep 'em guessing No one sees what I see This is my blessing And I'm looking for a way to get out of here Get me out of here, out of here, out of here
We lived through another day It's a good excuse to celebrate Take a number, knock on wood Find a reason to feel good I know you know you wanna know how I feel I can't even tell (3)[/i] -"Can't Even Tell" by Soul Asylum
[LINE] I feel jaded, faded, almost sedated. I am the epitome of apathy. My life is nothing but a myriad of undifferentiated monotony. Ah, but I like it. I don't like it. It doesn't matter. Should I be sent to a psychiatric asylum? No, I don't think so. I'm perfectly fine, just incredibly jaded.
Anyway, enough with the semi-psychotic rambling. I have a question for anyone knowledgeable in the area of world politics. I understand world politics to be equivalent to anarchy. There is no legislative body over all the nations in the world, there is no way to govern all the nations of the world. So why do we try and force nations to comply with our rules, our standards, our policies, even our culture? Not just the US, but other countries as well. The UN makes no sense to me. Well, no, it makes some sense. Forming a group to oversee and submit guidelines for the nations that choose to cooperate is beneficial. But only to a certain extent. The countries that do not wish to comply, do not wish to participate in globalization, are attacked for not cooperating. There can not be any form of government over the entire world, it's just not a good idea. But we continuously try and impose our government on other nations. There will always be opposing political philosophies and trying to force one ideology on another nation will only lead to escalating conflict. Whatever happened to Laissez-faire? The idea of [b]starting[/b] a war to prevent attacks by a country makes no sense to me. The idea of overthrowing a dictator in the aims of "freeing" the people and then occupying the territory makes no sense to me. Iranian leader, Khamenei, said the Americans "overthrew an Iraqi dictator and installed a foreign dictator in his place." How arrogant are we to impose our standards and our form of government on any other nation? Maybe I just don't understand foreign policy or world politics, maybe I'm just naive, but I don't like the way the US tries to act like the world police. We aren't, we can't be, and we certainly shouldn't try to be.
"Tragically, a nation that was created by intellectuals and visionaries has now been completely taken over by venal corporate gangsters, delusional Christian fruitcakes and hopelessly shallow Texas shit-kickers." -Tom Robbins
