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Interesting article about the failure to learn the lessons of the Cold War, the New World Order and the general ills of the world...
A couple of quotes if you can't be bothered to read it all:
A couple of quotes if you can't be bothered to read it all:
One of the costs of winning the Cold War is that the West has failed to rethink its assumptions about the conduct of international relations. Instead, and above all with the Bush administration, we have seen the recycling, often by veterans of the confrontations with the Soviet Union in the 1970s, of policies that were as wrong then as they are now: the fabrication of threats, accompanied by dire warnings about how time 'is running out', about hostile states; the repetition ad nauseam of platitudes about the role of force in international affairs that no first-year student could get away with; a suspicion, if not disdain, for international institutions, notably the UN and international law; a facile, historically short-sighted and grossly exaggerated set of claims about how many states conform to an acceptable model of democracy (the 'Free World' of the 1950s and 1960s recycled).
The contemporary global protest movement [is], to a considerable degree a children's crusade of intellectual demagogues, recycled 1960s bunkeristas with their fellow travellers in literary circles, dreamers and political manipulators, of the old and new lefts, whose claim to moral and analytic superiority too often masks a set of unexamined, and themselves often recycled, platitudes from the Cold War period and, indeed, from the ideology of the communist world.
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