Jim Hlavac
Foreign Affairs
How could anyone ever think that Africans, Asians, South Americans and Arabs
are incapable of running their own lives? And how can anyone sit idly by - as
Europe did, while Serbians wrecked havoc on their major cities and small towns,
for some cultural glory? That culture is absurd, even disgusting. These
cultures are abominations.
At the first chance at liberty people everywhere have lunged into economic,
religious, political and cultural freedom. In Thailand, in Japan, in India, in China
and South Korea, when the shackles of repression have been torn off the
people engage in constructive and productive enterprises. The more the
shackles are loosened the more prosperous and free and reasonable the
people become; as fast as is humanly possible. Look at China's turn towards
reasonableness and freedom -- a huge up swell in the wealth generated by the
people. The more freedom the more prosperity.
But it is the Marxists' statist beliefs of Europeans and Japan that declare
that free people making free choices to pursue their own endeavors is somehow
bad for the good of these cultures. The cultures are only good when the people
are repressed? It is morally repugnant to even listen to the argument. Of
course, they don't say it so bluntly, they are politically correct; they use terms
like, "well, that's their culture, we must respect their ways, that's the way it's
always been, they can't change."
The world's leftists and liberals and communists and socialists blame
America for the poverty and repression of thousands of year's old cultures, and
then blame American for trying to step in and solve the problems.
The Europeans and Japanese instead want to hobble America with the
same misguided and miscreant policies and beliefs which prevent their own
people form flourishing and enjoying the fruits of liberty as we Americans have
them. Further, they want the American people to work harder, to give their
bounty to the rest of the world -- as a reward for their own failure.