>>SNIP
>>>Create actual *means* of enforcing UN SC/other bodies decisions, and make
>>>them something undeniable/mandatory as ordinary court order in any of
>>>todays democratic countries. That would be step >fwd in evolution of world
>>>democracy and global society.
>>
>>I agree with above 100%
>
>I am glad You do.
>However for this EVER to work, UN political role/stage MUST NOT fall pray
>to the same forces that are running today's America.
>Otherwise, nobody normal in the world would agree on anything like that.
>Do I want to sign-inn my house/chilldren on a marketplace where
>money can buy decision to bomb, attack or even nuke someone's country ?
>
>No Thanks!
>It has to be sincere, responsible, honest and respectable place
>if it is to get any kind of world's acceptance.
>
>Entire UN&InternationalLaw foundation and structures built between 1945 and 2001 are now more/less reduced to pile of rubble. Will take long time and effort to rebuild it again to anything above; Tent for refugees, hospital for wounded, and tracks full of ricebags for hungry.
>
>Most of the world is scarred, uncertain about the future, and mostly afraid or upset with America. Bringing back tings from past over and over again, reheating old hatreds & fears is back in fashion;
>Israelis (still) talking about ww2 Holocaust, Arabs/Muslims about regaining lost lands, Americans talking about (&pursuing) 'war on terror', and so for...
>
>It completely different picture then that blooming, freedom seeking, optimistic, uniting world, from the end of 20th century.
>
>I want this kind of world outlook back for all of us.
>
So do I, but I think you are fondly remembering a blissful late 20th century that did not in fact exist. All the things you mention were already in place, some of them for a long time. There had already been a number of attacks by Islamic fundamentalists, if not on the scale of 9/11. The U.S. was already inward-looking and not that concerned about what happened elsewhere. Money was already paramount to a probably unprecedented degree. IMO it was not a freedom seeking, optimistic, united world at all.
Where was / is Europe in all this? The U.S. has not done a very good job as the world's sole remaining "superpower" (for now) but who is picking up the slack? No one. It's so much easier to just b*tch about the U.S. I do believe Europeans in general have more of a sense of responsibility for the planet than we do. But where's the action? There is a saying here -- don't just talk the talk, walk the walk.
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