THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume V, Issue # 49, March 8, 2003
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THE REAL NEW WORLD ORDER
By Alan Caruba
You don't have to be a Ph.D. to know that we are now in a period of transition between the world as it existed at the end of World War II, the international organizations created at that time, and today's world that is made up of more constitutional democracies than have existed at any time since the founding of our own nation.
Emerging from the horror of World War II in which an estimated sixty million people died, the world was divided between the two great powers, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was a world determined to avoid a third World War. Out of this emerged the United Nations, an institution that was largely the creation of Soviet agents in the U.S. State Department and their counterparts in the Soviet Union. The North American Treaty Organization also came into being, designed as an alliance of Western states to defend Western Europe against the potential of aggression from the Soviet Union, which had extended its military and political control deep into Europe and had created a buffer of Soviet-controlled satellite states, including East Germany and the Central European states. A "Cold War"between the Soviet, or Eastern, bloc and the free nations of the West existed until the fall of the Soviet Union.
Now both international organizations have come to the end of their usefulness. The United Nations has a long history of being unable to avert war anywhere and NATO, whose purpose was to defend Western Europe against the Soviet Union and its satellites, is no longer needed. The dithering of both international organizations over the prospect of war with Iraq are examples of their death throes. The establishment of the European Union, composed of Socialist and near-Socialist states, is already showing signs of strain as Socialism and Statism contribute inexorably to that continent's economic problems and sovereign European nations discover their independence is of greater value than this new, huge bureaucracy.
New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, postulates that we now exist in a world divided between nations striving for order, i.e., the absence of war, and those for whom war is a necessity, i.e., dictatorships that require an external enemy to divert their pop- ulations from the fact they are enslaved. What Friedman overlooks, however, is that con- stitutional democracies do not go to war with one another, so it is vital that constitutional democracy be spread everywhere, that people be encouraged to overthrow despotic governments in favor of self-rule.
This, I would argue, is the purpose of the regime change in Iraq. It is not that Saddam Hussein is an evil man so much as there is a need to liberate the people of Iraq and oth- ers throughout the Middle East to bring about change that favors democratic self-rule. At present, in that region of the world, only Turkey and Israel represent democratic nations.
The history of the past half-century since World War II amply demonstrates that con- stitutional democracy can be achieved. The three nations which contested the power of free nations, Germany, Italy and Japan, were not only defeated, but thereafter put on the path to becoming constitutional democratic, free states. Following the United States' determined containment of Soviet efforts to spread Communism, Poland freed itself of Soviet domination and the Soviet-style Communist political regime. The fall of the Soviet Union freed the remainder of its satellite nations. Spain, after Franco died, became a constitutional democracy. Taiwan, freed of tight political control by its oligarchy, became a thriving democracy.
In its annual report, Freedom House noted last December that "Freedom and democracy made significant worldwide progress in 2002, despite threats posted by global terror- ism." The report noted that "29 countries demonstrated forward progress in freedom, a dramatic increased from one year ago," cited Brazil, Lesotho, Senegal and Yugoslavia as has having "entered the ranks of free countries."
Even in Muslim and Arab nations, Freedom House found progress in Bahrain, calling it partly free, while noting "civic ferment in Iran and Kuwait" as well as progress in Qatar. Progress was noted in Afghanistan, Albania, Comoros, Tajikistan, and Turkey.
These days, Freedom House considers 89 countries to be well on the path to democracy and freedom, up from 43 in 1972. I cited this because I believe there is a worldwide un- dercurrent, a demand from ordinary people, for greater freedom. This is why 56 coun- tries are now considered partly free, an increase from 38 in 1972.
There are, however, 47 countries that Freedom House designates as not free, a sharp decline from 69 in 1972. These are nations in which basic political rights and civil liber- ties are denied. Not surprisingly, almost 60 percent of those denied such rights and liber- ties, 2.2 billion people, live in the People's Republic of China.
As always, since its inception at the beginning of the last century, Communism remains the primary threat to constitutional democracy and individual freedom. The other area of the world that remains mired in despotism is the Middle East. And as the U.S.A. sets about changing that, it is being opposed by the other hotbed of Socialism and Statism, the European Union. It is the EU that has been one of the major financial supporters of the Palestinians in their ceaseless efforts to destroy Israel. It comes as no surprise that most of the former Eastern bloc nations of the European Union have lined up to support the U.S. agenda for Iraq. They have done this because they have fresh memories of Soviet domination.
So, a new world order is emerging and it is not one envisioned by the "One World" advocates who would put the United Nations in charge of the planet. It is a world divided between constitutional democracy and authotarian despotism. As the United Nations and NATO slip into irrelevance and eventual dissolution, it has fallen to the United States of America to champion real freedom, real constitutionalism, and real democracy. The spread of global communications, travel, and business will continue to enhance this effort.
If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.
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Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center (www.anxietycenter.com). He is the author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS. THE UNITED STATES, both available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maple- wood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2003 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
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