At Project Syndicate Richard Haass pronounces the “liberal world order” dead. Here’s the slug:
America’s decision to abandon the global system it helped build, and then preserve for more than seven decades, marks a turning point, because others lack either the interest or the means to sustain it. The result will be a world that is less free, less prosperous, and less peaceful, for Americans and others alike.
I think he’s confusing “liberal world order” with “American hegemony”. There was never a liberal world order other than the one produced by overwhelming American power, both economic and military, and we can’t afford to maintain that kind of order with an economy in which just a handful of sectors are prospering while the others languish. It doesn’t help that the sectors that are prospering are those that are the most highly subsidized.
I knew two of the men who died in the recent helicopter crash in Iraq. The one I knew well leaves behind his wife and two young children.
If that is what’s required so Haas can have his liberal world order, then count me out. I’m so done with seeing the lives of good people ended for the stupidity of our elites. Yes, I know that complaint is as old a civilization, but I’ll repeat it nonetheless.
“I think he’s confusing “liberal world order†with “American hegemony”
In the last election, however you label the two, it was pitched vs America First. And since, both liberals and Never Trumpers have done nothing but call from the mountaintops about America’s diminishment in the world. The same can be said about trade. Are we Trumpers, or globalists?
There is a pitched battle occurring between a crude, hamfisted but intuitive President and an entrenched establishment whose very existence depends on the perpetuation of the current order. Is there any wonder the strength of the vitriol? Its a fight to the political death.