Re: The Legend of Squandered Sympathy

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Re: The Legend of Squandered Sympathy

At least for myself, I think I tend to value world opinion in part because I /want/ world opinion to matter. I want to live in a world where countries communicate intelligently with each other, and great matters of state are negotiated by smart people with the mandate of their citizenry. That is much more important to me than isolationism, because I know that isolating ourselves is just plain impossible in this era.

I'm also realistic enough to recognize that UN governance isn't worth a pile of steaming dogshit unless the sole remaining superpower (you know who) goes along with whatever they decide, and that's not going to change unless the leadership of that same superpower wants to let that change occur.

So if Kerry's telling the truth about wanting to work with other countries (and Congress doesn't get in the way of doing so), then we may see the UN start to matter again within a decade.

Tuesday, November 2. 2004
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