Hokey Smoke: There really is going to be a “Global Test”
From the people teaching the world how to deal with Rwanda and Darfur, as well as Israel and Iraq, there’s this:
Members of an international panel studying United Nations’ operations say the group hopes to lay down clear rules declaring when it is legal for a nation to use pre-emptive military force in its own defense….
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan established the 16-member High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change in November to study ways to reform the 59-year-old organization so it can better address 21st-century threats to security and peace….
“A central reason for our appointment was concern that the U.N., and indeed the whole multilateral security system, was really at a crossroads with the resurgence of unilateralism from you know whom, and increasing willingness to bypass the Security Council,” Mr. Evans said in a clear reference to the Bush administration.
The following cartoon may not be the way that Senator Kerry envisions the Global Test (we think it’s pretty close), but there can be no doubt that this is the way the UN thinks:
October 6th, 2004 at 1:56 pm
You will find that Kerry and his Secretary of State-wanna-be Holbroke’s attitude on a ‘global test’ are identical with the UN’s. In common with Kofi Annan, Jacque Chirac, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the leadership of the left-wing of the Democratic Party, Kerry’s basic ideology governing foreign policy and national security is Transnational Progressivism.
Transnational Progressivism is described here: http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_04-06/fonte_ideological/fonte_ideological.html
A reading of the description of Transnational Progressivism shows a consistent alignment with Kerry positions – ‘global tests’, summit meetings, group rights, Kyoto, ICC, lawyers in charge, etc. The UN, a Transnational Progressive (Tranzi) dominated institution, is perfectly in accord with Kerry’s world-view. Their Committee’s report will unquestionably endorse his Tranzi policy positions on ‘global test’.
I believe we are engaged, as does the author of the article I reference above, in a war on two fronts – one with bullets in the middle east, and one with ballots in the U.S. I feel strongly losing either will change the future for our descendents in destructive ways.
I would like to know your thoughts after you’ve had a chance to study the Tranzi ideology.