New World Order

[Michael Eisenstadt]

credentials: life-long leftie, just voted for 
Lesley Cochran the bearded transvestite who
hangs out on 6th and Congress for mayor.

the demise of the Soviets (1991) is a
watershed date. the notion of One World under
law goes back a long time. the clash of
world civilizations down through the 
millenia can be misleading. the Industrial
Revolution (1790ish) and the French Revolution
(1789) introduce the world of today. the
demise of the Soviets removed any serious 
challenge to entrepreneurial enterprise 
(based on enforcable contract law) as the
way the world works. from GE down to Apu
the Hindoo who manages the Kwicky-Mart,
that is the way the world earns its living.  

before 1991 American interventionism in
the Third world was immoral and exploitative. i 
think all of us agree to that. has that changed?
I submit that American interventionism AFTER 
1991 is based on a different calculus. Bush
senior was very much ridiculed for speaking of
a New World Order (especially because it sounded
like Hitler). Had he said One World under law
he perhaps might have been taken more seriously.

Bosnia (semi-failure), Somalia (total failure), 
and most recently Kosovo. the last seems to 
have been an extremely just intervention which 
stopped the Serbs from driving every Moslem out 
of Kosovo. also got rid of Milosevic and sent 
him for trial to the Hague. 78 day war without 
the loss of a single American serviceman. the 
Serbs express gratitude. Germans Russians Brits 
Americans French and Italians working together 
for one world under law.

Afghanistan is a far different kettle of fish.
Harder to stop the bad guys. But is it undoable?
Kosovo surprised everybody. Everybody was saying
undoable, this, that and the other.

but this time the bad guys are not corrupt
nationalists like Milosevic or the warlords 
of Somalia. these are religious idealists who 
reject modern industrial civilization. shit!!!
i reject modern industrial civilization myself.
still and all living under the rule of law
(i.e. in a Western country) whilst rejecting
modern industrial civilization is a feasible
lifestyle. the original Mohammed came out of
the Arabian desert and made quite a stir in
the world. can this be done a second time by
Osama? 

now, why did the gummint immediately undertake
to go after the bad guys in the badest badlands
in the hole whirl?

perhaps the military concensus was that the 
operation IS doable. 

Republicans such as Bush senior and Bush junior's
current crew are NOT sympatico to me poisonly.
their moral position is that they want to exploit
the entire world for profitable biz. I am put off 
by their profit making and their disregard for 
Mother Earth. nontheless i must ask myself if 
I am not in favor of One World under law (criminal 
and contractual). 

how smart is Donald Rumsfeld? for the moment he
seems to be running the show. he is 69. what if
he cracks? he has a ranch in Taos.