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His sentences of globalization were the critical element. By including 3rd world countries in global trade, by "deepening capitalism" as he says, we essentially
by tx 19y ago
His sentences of globalization were the critical element. By including 3rd world countries in global trade, by "deepening capitalism" as he says, we essentially outsourced the poor. Now the poorest Americans represent the upper middle class of the world.
The world, especially the Muslim part, seems to object.
- anamax 19y agoThe odd thing about this "outsourced the poor" is that we didn't make them poorer in an absolute sense. We either left them where they were or gave them options that many of them prefer, which is another word for "richer". We haven't freed them from whatever despot got to them first, but they don't seem to value that all that much. It's hard to see how their choice or situation is our fault.
- andreyf 19y ago...they don't seem to value that all that much. It's hard to see how their choice or situation is our fault. Although it would be nice if this were the case, history starkly disagrees.
- anamax 19y ago"history" disagrees with what? Does "history" think that we have freed them from despotism? Does history think that they'd like us to do something about their despot? If so, history seems to have some problems with reality.
- andreyf 19y agoSorry for being imprecise, trying to avoid a lengthy political debate. There are many examples when American actions have helped put and keep despots in power because of perceived American interests. If we expand the criteria to include examples of American interests sustaining systems which keep despots in power, we can find even more examples. Either way, America hasn't had a non-interventionist foreign policy in a long time, and it's both frightening and insane that some still see it as a mythical white night battling for good in the world.