Long before Sept. 11 the globalism America was imposing on as much of the world as it could was provoking a backlash that picked up virulence as globalism's dignitaries hopped from summit to summit. The attacks shifted attention and sympathies for a while, but what's remarkable is that despite the attacks, anti-Americanism resumed and increased. Jealousy is too easy a way out of the paradox, another glib shrug-off to a real problem. Then what
Of course, Fukuyama's pronouncement was wrong, as all such judgments tend to be. Americans and Soviets were so comfortably engrossed in their bipolar clash of ideologies -- it was all so simple then, to quote Charlie Pride that they blindsided themselves to all sorts of other tensions lurking beneath their chess board. The Soviets' exit and America's vacuous response let it all explode: The new world disorder of nationalism, fundamentalism, and globalism.
American leadership was concerned with the first two only in so far as they got in the way of the third. It took Bill Clinton for ever to intervene in the Balkans because there was other business to attend to. Massacres aside, nothing more than the dig
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Nor have the attacks really impeded or changed that creed. The priority isn't the defense of human rights or human dignity, and judging from the scatterbrained and haphazardly extravagant spending on the home front, it isn't so-called homeland security, either. The war on terrorism is politically expedient. With the right script, it translates George Bush's incompetence into George Patton's (or George C. Scott's) resolve. It simplifies issues that would otherwise have to be haggled over or compromised those billions in fresh subsidies to defense contractors, for example, the push for energy "independence" at the expense of the environment, the legitimizing of police-state thuggery in the name of security. And it diverts attention from the goal, unchanged under Bush as it was under Clinton: The business of America, as ever, is business belligerently conducted and imperiously imposed if necessary.
Clinton may not have been as brutal as Bush in the creed's application. He knew that CO2 did more than put bubbles in his diet soda, which Bush seems not to know. He understood that unregulated business was business' own worst enemy, something Bush, a CEO by hobby, seems incapable of grasping. Clinton at least talked a good game of compassion and good will. With Bush and his organization men's accession to th
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