Jim Hlavac
Foreign Affairs
If countries are concerned about getting paid by Iraq why couldn't the US and
Europe and the UN say that a new freer government will have to pay those
debts?
How can we permit a country like Iraq to so badly treat is own people?
Don't these people there have the same human rights as us?
Diplomatic speech should be blunter at the UN against these Neanderthal
regimes.
By having freedom as our sole foreign policy criteria we will disable all
attempts to blame us for propping up untenable regimes.
Rank each country by a freedom index.
Use our diplomatic corp and regular citizens and the peace corp. etc., to
give lessons in civil society.
We can not both push for human rights and woman's rights and also
respect cultures that don't respect these rights because of their traditional
values. Positive cultural things like language, holidays, food, religion can be
maintained without the negative cultural things.
With countries like Haiti we should simply adopt it, move in with people and
the military to teach the basics of our institutions, help rewrite the laws and
provide the education system -- a cost benefit analysis will show that it is
cheaper to build a country like Haiti than to constantly deal with the disasters
and the immigration. If we spend $100 million a year on Haiti then let's not give
it fish, but teach it how to fish.
At times it may seem to be better to physically separate some people such
as the Hutu and Tutsi; Muslims, Serbs, Croats and Albanians. It will only be for
a short time, perhaps two or three decades, which isn't very long considering
they have been slaughtering each other for thousands of years.
It's like separating kids on the playground, over time, as these societies
progress mature into commerce directed, liberty based societies then they can
start to trade with each other and learn to respect the other.
Oddly, no human activity is as peaceful as making money legally; by
creating merchants we create peaceful people.
The creation of an education system or program about the separation of
people is necessary. The argument by some strongmen that their societies
aren't ready for democracy and commerce is only true to the extent that even
the strongman himself isn't mature enough.
What do we do for countries, like Libya, Sudan, Somalia and North Korea?
Nothing short of massive military invasion and control will solve the problems.
For the rest of the world: Basically an open embrace with free trade, that
is, no restrictions on any American enterprise trading or opening offices in any
country but also absolutely no tax payer financial help, no military support. No
US government bailouts. Total risk to the company
Countries can trade with the US only when they can begin to satisfy the
rules of commerce and liberty.
For situations like Venezuela, Columbia and Argentina, not much different
than royal regimes, where the entrepreneurial set got up and left. So they are
doing now. The same with other countries, that these immigrants plunge into
hard work and business in the United States is the purist proof of their
entrepreneuiralism. In Europe it is harder to be a entrepreneur and thus it is
harder for these Entrepreneurs to get going in life.