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G-8 Calls for Zimbabwe Sanctions

Today, the leaders of the world's richest countries proposed a set of completely ineffectual sanctions against Robert Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe while the dictator's neighbors and friends in Africa pleaded with the summit goers to leave well enough alone in Zimbabwe... [snip]

That's the trouble with these dictators. All they can see is something similar happening to them some day. You can be sure they don't want the UN, the G-8, the Big Five, or the Gargantuan Three to be telling them how to go about murdering their own people. They are perfectly capable of doing it themselves...

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The G1

“This is a crisis in legitimacy and world leadership,” said a senior French official. Nation after nation are questioning the international institutions that are supposed to underpin modern society. There is a World Bank, World Trade Organization, and World Heritage Committee, but none of them seems to function... [snip]

There are dozens of international organizations, and adding one more-or reforming any or all of them-is not the answer. Authoritarian nations and totalitarian rogues are getting stronger. The answer is not so much integrating these states into multilateral organizations but insisting that they change themselves.

Until these nations are rendered harmless, there will be a need for a G1. At this crucial moment, the United States is the only force that can keep the current international system together. The issue is whether Americans have the resolve, skill, and strength to redirect history one more time.

The story of the 21st century, for better or worse, will be written in the next several years in North America.

[with the exception of China and India, all other rogue nations - including Russia - have gotten stronger because of the collective-monopoly we ourselves handed them re: oil - what the world runs on.]

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