Politics

The Wealth of Other Nations

A wealthy Iraq, Iran or China or North Korea are no threat to the US -it is only when that wealth is in the control of a despotic few that there is peril and danger. If the Chinese government respected human rights, allowed religious freedom, economic wealth creation and all the rights and fruits of freedom and liberty they would immediately partner with the US in bringing this same liberty to the rest of the world. Because free people work together to be happy and bring freedom to other people, and repressive governments work only to cause dissension and scheming and violence and threats.

Why would the Pakistani government worry about India if the crazed Hindu nationalists weren't in power? If India was free, and wealthy and working towards normalcy it wouldn't be trying to eliminate the millions of Muslims next door in Pakistan. And if the despotic Muslim government of Pakistan wasn't just as determined to rid the world of all non-Muslims for the greater glory of god they why would the Indians worry?

They wouldn't. Instead both would be working towards bettering the lives of their abject poor and building wealth and doing everything they could to cooperate and build, construct and produce.

There is no earthly reason that India and Pakistan couldn't have an open, undefended border just like exists between Canada and the US -- except that both countries are driven by the Glory of their Cultures, which they insist are the only true cultures, and they have been doing so for a thousand years before America ever showed up. But who do they blame? America.

We do not cause the Muslim and Hindi's to hate each other for no other reason than the Glory of their Culture. We did nothing to prevent the education of millions of those people, and to keep woman from being involved in civil life. We didn't invent the caste system. We have worked for decades to convince both the Pakistanis and the Indians that the better course of action is to respect the rights of individuals to believe as they do and to allow them to create wealth free of government intervention.

Instead both governments are determined to follow the statist course to protect their cultures from encroachment by the other. Both are even more hellbent today on reviving the Glory of their Culture that nuclear war is no longer unthinkable between them.

Yet in America we have taken the best of Indian culture, and are working to take the best of Pakistani culture, and the emigrants from there who are the best and the brightest and recognize that they must get out of those hellholes of repression and cultural glory and come to America to pursue their dreams.

In Flushing, in the borough of Queens, New York City, Hindu Indians and Muslim Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and Sikhs and otehrs are completely able to get along, live next to each other, play together, work together and pursue their individual happiness. Why then can it not be done in their home countries? Is it something in the water they drink, either here or there?

The pursuit of their dreams is entirely possible at home only when those countries wake up and see the light and change their attitudes to resemble America's.

It is not cultural hegemony on America's part, but the absurdity of having two countries at war with each other for more than 50 years for the sole purpose of glorifying cultures that have created the deepest poverty. It's like they are in a race to see who can impoverish their people more.

It is absurd and dangerous. And nuclear war is presently a concern there because of the glory of these cultures refusing to accede after 4 or 5 thousand years that the other exists and has the right to exist.

It doesn't seem that hard to understand that all people have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But India and Pakistan are firmly in the camp that believes that only some people have the right to exist, and they must be kept impoverished and repressed until they can eliminate the other people. What a colossal waste of time, energy effort and money.

And then they go and blame America for the morass. Astounding!

So these two governments have spent billions of dollars in an effort to slaughter each other, kept at bay only by the threat of US Military action. They have begged for aid from the US, only so they can shift more resources to the effort to slaughter, while their people languish in poverty. Meanwhile the world complains about US hegemony when we try to step in and prevent the slaughter.