A wealthy Iraq, Iran or China or North Korea are no threat to the US -it is only when that
wealth is in the control of a despotic few that there is peril and danger. If the Chinese
government respected human rights, allowed religious freedom, economic wealth creation
and all the rights and fruits of freedom and liberty they would immediately partner with the
US in bringing this same liberty to the rest of the world. Because free people work
together to be happy and bring freedom to other people, and repressive governments
work only to cause dissension and scheming and violence and threats.
Why would the Pakistani government worry about India if the crazed Hindu nationalists
weren't in power? If India was free, and wealthy and working towards normalcy it wouldn't
be trying to eliminate the millions of Muslims next door in Pakistan. And if the despotic
Muslim government of Pakistan wasn't just as determined to rid the world of all
non-Muslims for the greater glory of god they why would the Indians worry?
They wouldn't. Instead both would be working towards bettering the lives of their abject
poor and building wealth and doing everything they could to cooperate and build,
construct and produce.
There is no earthly reason that India and Pakistan couldn't have an open, undefended
border just like exists between Canada and the US -- except that both countries are
driven by the Glory of their Cultures, which they insist are the only true cultures, and they
have been doing so for a thousand years before America ever showed up. But who do
they blame? America.
We do not cause the Muslim and Hindi's to hate each other for no other reason than the
Glory of their Culture. We did nothing to prevent the education of millions of those people,
and to keep woman from being involved in civil life. We didn't invent the caste system.
We have worked for decades to convince both the Pakistanis and the Indians that the
better course of action is to respect the rights of individuals to believe as they do and to
allow them to create wealth free of government intervention.
Instead both governments are determined to follow the statist course to protect their
cultures from encroachment by the other. Both are even more hellbent today on reviving
the Glory of their Culture that nuclear war is no longer unthinkable between them.
Yet in America we have taken the best of Indian culture, and are working to take the best
of Pakistani culture, and the emigrants from there who are the best and the brightest and
recognize that they must get out of those hellholes of repression and cultural glory and
come to America to pursue their dreams.
In Flushing, in the borough of Queens, New York City, Hindu Indians and Muslim Pakistanis
and Bangladeshis, and Sikhs and otehrs are completely able to get along, live next to each
other, play together, work together and pursue their individual happiness. Why then can
it not be done in their home countries? Is it something in the water they drink, either here
or there?
The pursuit of their dreams is entirely possible at home only when those countries wake
up and see the light and change their attitudes to resemble America's.
It is not cultural hegemony on America's part, but the absurdity of having two countries
at war with each other for more than 50 years for the sole purpose of glorifying cultures
that have created the deepest poverty. It's like they are in a race to see who can
impoverish their people more.
It is absurd and dangerous. And nuclear war is presently a concern there because of the
glory of these cultures refusing to accede after 4 or 5 thousand years that the other
exists and has the right to exist.
It doesn't seem that hard to understand that all people have the right to life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. But India and Pakistan are firmly in the camp that believes that
only some people have the right to exist, and they must be kept impoverished and
repressed until they can eliminate the other people. What a colossal waste of time, energy
effort and money.
And then they go and blame America for the morass. Astounding!
So these two governments have spent billions of dollars in an effort to slaughter each
other, kept at bay only by the threat of US Military action. They have begged for aid from
the US, only so they can shift more resources to the effort to slaughter, while their people
languish in poverty. Meanwhile the world complains about US hegemony when we try to
step in and prevent the slaughter.
wealth is in the control of a despotic few that there is peril and danger. If the Chinese
government respected human rights, allowed religious freedom, economic wealth creation
and all the rights and fruits of freedom and liberty they would immediately partner with the
US in bringing this same liberty to the rest of the world. Because free people work
together to be happy and bring freedom to other people, and repressive governments
work only to cause dissension and scheming and violence and threats.
Why would the Pakistani government worry about India if the crazed Hindu nationalists
weren't in power? If India was free, and wealthy and working towards normalcy it wouldn't
be trying to eliminate the millions of Muslims next door in Pakistan. And if the despotic
Muslim government of Pakistan wasn't just as determined to rid the world of all
non-Muslims for the greater glory of god they why would the Indians worry?
They wouldn't. Instead both would be working towards bettering the lives of their abject
poor and building wealth and doing everything they could to cooperate and build,
construct and produce.
There is no earthly reason that India and Pakistan couldn't have an open, undefended
border just like exists between Canada and the US -- except that both countries are
driven by the Glory of their Cultures, which they insist are the only true cultures, and they
have been doing so for a thousand years before America ever showed up. But who do
they blame? America.
We do not cause the Muslim and Hindi's to hate each other for no other reason than the
Glory of their Culture. We did nothing to prevent the education of millions of those people,
and to keep woman from being involved in civil life. We didn't invent the caste system.
We have worked for decades to convince both the Pakistanis and the Indians that the
better course of action is to respect the rights of individuals to believe as they do and to
allow them to create wealth free of government intervention.
Instead both governments are determined to follow the statist course to protect their
cultures from encroachment by the other. Both are even more hellbent today on reviving
the Glory of their Culture that nuclear war is no longer unthinkable between them.
Yet in America we have taken the best of Indian culture, and are working to take the best
of Pakistani culture, and the emigrants from there who are the best and the brightest and
recognize that they must get out of those hellholes of repression and cultural glory and
come to America to pursue their dreams.
In Flushing, in the borough of Queens, New York City, Hindu Indians and Muslim Pakistanis
and Bangladeshis, and Sikhs and otehrs are completely able to get along, live next to each
other, play together, work together and pursue their individual happiness. Why then can
it not be done in their home countries? Is it something in the water they drink, either here
or there?
The pursuit of their dreams is entirely possible at home only when those countries wake
up and see the light and change their attitudes to resemble America's.
It is not cultural hegemony on America's part, but the absurdity of having two countries
at war with each other for more than 50 years for the sole purpose of glorifying cultures
that have created the deepest poverty. It's like they are in a race to see who can
impoverish their people more.
It is absurd and dangerous. And nuclear war is presently a concern there because of the
glory of these cultures refusing to accede after 4 or 5 thousand years that the other
exists and has the right to exist.
It doesn't seem that hard to understand that all people have the right to life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. But India and Pakistan are firmly in the camp that believes that
only some people have the right to exist, and they must be kept impoverished and
repressed until they can eliminate the other people. What a colossal waste of time, energy
effort and money.
And then they go and blame America for the morass. Astounding!
So these two governments have spent billions of dollars in an effort to slaughter each
other, kept at bay only by the threat of US Military action. They have begged for aid from
the US, only so they can shift more resources to the effort to slaughter, while their people
languish in poverty. Meanwhile the world complains about US hegemony when we try to
step in and prevent the slaughter.
| The Wealth of Other Nations |
| Jim Hlavac |
| Poltics Re-explained |
