tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14438897.post113190590584580615..comments2023-11-02T02:45:39.259-06:00Comments on Hydrogen & Stupidity: "A Betrayal of Our Most Precious Values"Cantankerous Bitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353178783999591681noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14438897.post-1132158888779762902005-11-16T09:34:00.000-07:002005-11-16T09:34:00.000-07:00I think that we not only lack a seat at the dinner...I think that we not only lack a seat at the dinner party, but we need to be thrown out by security! We can't even address our own dilemmas. <BR/>What can we make of the <A HREF="http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/usa/document.do?id=ENGAMR511852005" REL="nofollow"> EU-USA Troika </A> meeting? <BR/> You know, we talk alot about whether we are or are not justified in our moral crusades. We talk about the presence or absence of moral authority in our international policies. And yet we are much like the neighbor who tries to raise your kid, who tells them not to smoke for example while they puff away.<BR/> Even if we had credibility- I have trouble with the arrogant posturing of any adolescent nation presuming to dictate what is best for the world. We cannot seem to model solutions- on torture, on energy, on technology, on renewable resources, on functional democracy, on free market untouched by subsidies and pork-peddling...<BR/> So we point to our failings and we debate our authority's legitimacy. Even if we were the finest examples of humanity- we have no right to impose our way of life upon the unwilling. They see much that is wrong about our way of life. They see us as the bully that won't share, that takes the lion's share of everything. How stupid we are to 'spread' anything! <BR/> The idea is one of the more bitter historical ironies. <BR/> America has lost five pounds from an obese political frame and wants to tell the world how to count calories.Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689786323490572915noreply@blogger.com