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The political and social gifts of globalization have been every bit as destructive as its economic effects.
Globalization doesn’t just make it possible for a million Muslims to show up in Germany, but for transnational Islamic terror organizations like Al Qaeda or ISIS to operate. It’s no coincidence that they took off with globalization. Or that globalized Islamic terror networks have used the machinery of globalization: jet planes, trains, human trafficking, the internet and multicultural cities to wreak havoc.
Instead of binding the world closer together, globalization financed a renewed wave of aggression by former failed Communist states and enabled Islamic terrorists to strike deep in the heart of the West.
Globalization doesn’t just make it possible for a million Muslims to show up in Germany, but for transnational Islamic terror organizations like Al Qaeda or ISIS to operate. It’s no coincidence that they took off with globalization. Or that globalized Islamic terror networks have used the machinery of globalization: jet planes, trains, human trafficking, the internet and multicultural cities to wreak havoc.
Instead of binding the world closer together, globalization financed a renewed wave of aggression by former failed Communist states and enabled Islamic terrorists to strike deep in the heart of the West.
The Global Failure of Globalization
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My favorite question to those who espouse globalization is "Just what sort of government should the global community adopt?" For Americans, I ask, "Which of your Constitutional Rights are you prepared to surrender?" And when they attempt to argue that other nations have the same rights, I can only laugh. It is impossible to shake them free of their delusions.
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CPT Jack Durish
SSgt Gary Andrews - There's economic globalization and their political globalization. I know that people attempt to separate government and economics but they are each others handmaidens. Free markets have a better chance of developing among nations with free peoples. Sadly, the proponents of globalization these days want controlled markets which give rise to large, controlling governments. After all, if "the state" is to control markets, they must also control the people and their choices. I don't want to live in that kind of world. And, as to the internet and jet planes being the tools of globalization, notice how restricted access to these modern wonders is in nations with tightly controlled people and tightly controlled economies. The simple fact is that globalization doesn't need proponents among free peoples. It's something that occurs naturally.
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SSgt Gary Andrews
You make some good points, Captain Jack. Globalization has, and does, occur naturally as modern conveniences and new technologies tend to "shrink" the world. My point was....we can't go back to the way things were.....we have to make the best of our new reality.
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CPT Jack Durish
SSgt Gary Andrews - I have no problem with our "new reality". I have major problems with people attempting to use it to create a one world government.
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This is great share, as it presents an opportunity to dialogue on an important issue facing those who wear the uniform.
First, I will caution anyone who read Mr. Greenfield's blog to maintain a healthy skepticism. His writing suffers from factual errors (globalization built the Berlin Wall?) and faulty logic (stating economic immigrants are either scroungers and hustlers presents a false dilemma). Further, his claim that "most immigrants...get by on welfare and semi-legal marginal jobs" is xenophobic, at best, and racist, at worst.
However, CPT Jack Durish makes some excellent comments, and I feel he has redeemed this entire thread. Globalization, as a global trend that is occurring around the U.S., is simply not debatable. Rather, the U.S. must choose between isolationism or engagement. American isolationism, historically, has never secured U.S. interests, and I believe this is unlikely to change in a world made closer by technology. So Jack's point on how to engage the international community, both politically and economically, with the ideals of our Constitution is critical for those in uniform to consider. Nobody who has worn the uniform and served overseas would say that other nations share the same rights as U.S. citizens. I believe that combatting deviant globalization, including ISIS, human trafficking rings, and dictators which deny these basic human rights, means engaging. Though there is a cost to engagement, it cannot be to surrender our constitutional rights in the hope of appeasing the enemy. Rather, we must accept that the cost will be paid in treasure and in blood.
First, I will caution anyone who read Mr. Greenfield's blog to maintain a healthy skepticism. His writing suffers from factual errors (globalization built the Berlin Wall?) and faulty logic (stating economic immigrants are either scroungers and hustlers presents a false dilemma). Further, his claim that "most immigrants...get by on welfare and semi-legal marginal jobs" is xenophobic, at best, and racist, at worst.
However, CPT Jack Durish makes some excellent comments, and I feel he has redeemed this entire thread. Globalization, as a global trend that is occurring around the U.S., is simply not debatable. Rather, the U.S. must choose between isolationism or engagement. American isolationism, historically, has never secured U.S. interests, and I believe this is unlikely to change in a world made closer by technology. So Jack's point on how to engage the international community, both politically and economically, with the ideals of our Constitution is critical for those in uniform to consider. Nobody who has worn the uniform and served overseas would say that other nations share the same rights as U.S. citizens. I believe that combatting deviant globalization, including ISIS, human trafficking rings, and dictators which deny these basic human rights, means engaging. Though there is a cost to engagement, it cannot be to surrender our constitutional rights in the hope of appeasing the enemy. Rather, we must accept that the cost will be paid in treasure and in blood.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
I think "isolationism or engagement" is a false dichotomy. Not only that, but it really depends on how those terms are defined. Some people would try to claim that pulling out of the Paris climate agreement is isolationist, for example, and it really doesn't have anything to do with isolationism.
Or to put it another way, I think "engagement" can encompass a large spectrum of activities and policies that represent very different paths, all while not being isolationist. Globalism is one end of that spectrum, and I for one am happy to forego it. We can have a very robust international trade along with science and cultural exchanges --and military engagement too, when necessary -- without ceding any of our national sovereignty to the UN, Paris, the EU, or anyone else.
Or to put it another way, I think "engagement" can encompass a large spectrum of activities and policies that represent very different paths, all while not being isolationist. Globalism is one end of that spectrum, and I for one am happy to forego it. We can have a very robust international trade along with science and cultural exchanges --and military engagement too, when necessary -- without ceding any of our national sovereignty to the UN, Paris, the EU, or anyone else.
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That is what was desired. Chaos brings change. See Europe, North Africa, the ME...
Governments must grow due to threats. Individual security is taken away for the good of all, culture is called perversity, I mean diversity... The US is the last country to go down the rabbit hole. The North American Union is on hold for now.
Governments must grow due to threats. Individual security is taken away for the good of all, culture is called perversity, I mean diversity... The US is the last country to go down the rabbit hole. The North American Union is on hold for now.
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