Liberal Democracy (was Robert Mundell: Genius unbound)

[James Baird]

> It should be pointed out, though, that were the First World to delink from
> the Third, this would mean a cut-off off support for Third World elites
who
> would consequently be overthrown (e.g. Saigon in '75 and Columbia today).
> (One of the odd things about Cockburn appearing on the same anti-war
podium
> with Pat Buchanan is that Buchanan is not an anti-war isolationist. He
> supported America's attack on Nicaragua's Sandinistas) Then, I bet, the
rest
> of the world would gang up on the much less populous First World.
>
> Peter

Two things: first, just because 1st worlders were not out there fomenting
disorder, 4 billion plus people are just gonna spontaneuously rise up and
join together?  (I don't know about you, but I have trouble getting more
than 3 people to agree enough to order a pizza...)  Second, we're long past
the time when "human wave" techniques were very militarily effective.  Do
you really think this magically united third world would be able to make
much of a dent against 1st world militaries, epecially without weaponry
supplied by them?

Jim Baird

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