Just when you thought the New World Order was inevitable, and it was the end of life in America as we know it, along comes Daniel Greenfield at FrontPageMag with some skeptical words of reassurance:
. . . The new world we live in now
is one where Russia is trying to rebuild a Czarist empire, and China, Iran, and
every other power or power that was, is fighting to recreate its glory days.
The patchwork international order
had been a product of the Cold War that Bush and Gorbachev were eagerly bidding
farewell to. Globalism, or the post-Cold War international order based on
trade, human rights and conferences proved to be as much of a joke as the UN,
the WTO, the NGOs and the multilateral organizations that served as its shaky
infrastructure.
Bush envisioned "a world where
the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle" and "nations
recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice" on the brink
of the original Gulf War.
But the only law that ever existed
was the law of force enforced by self-interest or idealism.
. . .
The old world order is the reality
that once the meetings are done and the conferences are over, every country is
all alone. Virtue signaling globalism means that everyone will fly Ukrainian
flags, just as they expressed solidarity with Hong Kong and will hashtag Taiwan
at need.
And then they’ll move on to the
next political outrage, celebrity gossip or trending news.
. . .
A century of tired arguments have
reduced us to the false choice between isolationism and internationalism. But
at the height of our rising power in the 19th century, the United States was
neither. It was not afraid of asserting its ideals, but neither was it foolish
enough to believe that the rest of the world would go along or that we were
obligated to make them all behave. We primarily pursued our own interests and
we were not afraid of a little expansionism either.
Most importantly, we did not see
our place in the world as bound by the rest of the world.
. . .
The American Revolution and the
Constitution ushered in the true new world order not by seeking to control the
world, but by showing the human race what was possible. Every effort to outdo
that order with a new world order has failed. . . .
Mr. Greenfield’s full article is here. I would like to think he’s right.
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