Condi beat me to it by just four years
March 20th 2007 17:08
My post on The League of Democracies was an early morning rant, cooked up in the early hours of morning after a sleepless night. Had no idea that no less than Condolezza Rice had the same idea, as I discovered in this Marxist website, of all the places:
The professional foreign policy community assumes that the international system is "naturally" headed toward an eventual American-led consolidation of democratic authority over international affairs. William Pfaff in Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America in the New York Review of Books says that he most coherent and plausible official articulation of such reasoning was offered in the summer of 2003 by Condoleezza Rice, then President Bush's national security adviser, speaking in London at the annual meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.Pfaff say that Rice argued that:
...the time had come to discard the system of balance of power among sovereign states established by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The Westphalian settlement ended the wars of religion by establishing the principles of religious tolerance and absolute state sovereignty. The UN is a faulty embodiment of international authority because it is an indiscriminate assembly of all the governments of the world, and should, she argued, be replaced as the ultimate world authority by an alliance or coalition of the democracies.
There. She had the same idea as I. Well, she had it four years before. Pity, Bush chose such a brilliant analyst to run Foggy Bottom. A.s he is finding out to his cost, there is a world of difference between giving good advice and doing the actual administration.
The professional foreign policy community assumes that the international system is "naturally" headed toward an eventual American-led consolidation of democratic authority over international affairs. William Pfaff in Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America in the New York Review of Books says that he most coherent and plausible official articulation of such reasoning was offered in the summer of 2003 by Condoleezza Rice, then President Bush's national security adviser, speaking in London at the annual meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.Pfaff say that Rice argued that:
...the time had come to discard the system of balance of power among sovereign states established by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The Westphalian settlement ended the wars of religion by establishing the principles of religious tolerance and absolute state sovereignty. The UN is a faulty embodiment of international authority because it is an indiscriminate assembly of all the governments of the world, and should, she argued, be replaced as the ultimate world authority by an alliance or coalition of the democracies.
There. She had the same idea as I. Well, she had it four years before. Pity, Bush chose such a brilliant analyst to run Foggy Bottom. A.s he is finding out to his cost, there is a world of difference between giving good advice and doing the actual administration.
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