Politics

Liberty

The goal of American foreign policy should be the positive transformation of all the countries on the planet into American style recognition of the inalienable rights of mankind. And it is the moral imperative of right thinking people in Europe and Japan (in whom we instilled this idea after centuries of their own oppression and slaughter,) and around the world to join with us.

Over the next 50 years we must enact and create a strategic plan to so change the world. All Americans of these descents can live together in peace and harmony in America. There is no earthly reason that they can't live so at home.

The reality is is that there's nothing particularly special about the soil, water or air on or above or traversing North America that magically transforms people into reasonable, decent hardworking people. That in the home country slaughter each other with abandon.

We should work to change the most egregious first, and that should encourage the others. With Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Haiti, Sudan, North Korea, Libya being prime examples.

And help support those that have seen the light and are on the way to Civil Society. Such as Eastern Europe, Chile and Taiwan and South Korea.

This is not cultural imperialism or hegemony. This is basic logic. It is impossible to conclude without intellectual dishonesty and/or a callous disregard for other people that it is OK for a Frenchmen to live in relative harmony and prosperity while a fellow human being a few hundred miles away in Libya and Algeria are living in hellish conditions. If Libya, Morroco, Tunisia and Algeria were reasonable places the people there wouldn't be risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean. And there is nothing emanating from the depths of that Sea that makes people free and prosperous on one side and failures on the other. Rather it is the system within which the people live.

There is a skewed moral perspective when a country such as any in Europe are willing to condemn millions to the dictatorships of the Middle East and Cuba and elsewhere. 'Tis absurd to believe that these people want to be oppressed, to be denied the rights of so many of mankind. Which are so readily enjoyed in Europe.

What makes the Europeans so special that after all of 50 years of rights, they feel confident enough to deny these same right to others on the planet? Would the protesters of American actions desire to live in Syria Iraq or Iran?

Do these people really believe the citizens of these other countries have no right to speech and press and religion? Are they such cultural imperialists that they believe that non-white people don't ache for freedom and prosperity? Americans believe that within the cultures that cover the earth the same level of freedom and prosperity can occur. It is the Europeans who are willing to condemn people to repression. What sort of debased culture allows repression?

That condemnation is yet another example of the lingering belief within Europe of the Divine Right of the State to subjugate its people mercilessly. How easy it is for a European and Japanese, whose peace is dependent on the USA and our military, to say to these other countries: people must suffer. And to then deplore and detest the use of the American military to bring others the same freedom and prosperity that they have now been enjoying for just 50 years.

And where are the protestations over the United States military basically keeping the Greeks and Turks from warring with each other? Yet both those countries find it so easy to criticize America.

It is a misguided cavalier attitude to the rights of all mankind and an arrogant, though subtle, racism that says these people can't enjoy the fruits of liberty.

It is obnoxious to hear European governments, repressive just a generation or two ago, to say that repression elsewhere is somehow "normal."

It is even more galling to hear that American calls for liberty are some how imperialistic and bad for the world when they have been enjoying the fruits of our efforts for the past 50 years. Does egalitaire, libertaire, and fraternataire stop at the Cote D'Azur, but can not be allowed to cross into North Africa?

There is no decency in religious figures of any styles condoning or promoting the repression of citizens in these pseudo theocracies which exist in the Middle East. There is nothing that prevents the people in repressed countries from being able to exercise liberty, except the wrong belief in the right of the state, controlled by a few, to repress their own people. It is in fact, far more greedy and nasty and arrogant to assume that Europe can be free but Africa, Asia and the Middle East are somehow forever ensnared in repression.

To listen to European leftists and liberals, politicians of every party, you would think that there is a finite amount of liberty to go around and since Europe has it, too bad, therefore no one else can. The Europeans seem to think that the states that are repressive have almost an obligation to keep their citizens repressed and that no one else has an obligation to stop the repression.