>We've seen numerous contradictory positions and statements on foreign affairs, but these statements on world currency top the cake:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/5050407/US-backing-for-world-currency-stuns-markets.html>
>So what is the U.S. position exactly? I guess it depends on not only who you ask, but what day you ask...
1) Are they proposing a world currency - similar to the Euro, but at a larger scale? If yes, I don't see any problem with that. This was proposed more than 100 years ago by Bahá'u'lláh - and I am quite sure it will happen, sooner or later. One of several step that will help towards the unification of mankind.
2) Where is the contradiction? Was the U.S. recently against such a currency? I have not been following up too closely on U.S. affairs.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)