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Under New Management?
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, refocused the world on security concerns that can be addressed only by national governments.
"Nonsense. If anything, 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks demonstrated the failure of national governments to protect their citizens" MEM
Actually, you are agreeing that the concerns do exist, and that the governments did fail to address them. A semantic point, perhaps, but you can;'t claim that the government failed to address nonsensical concerns. I think the 1980's novels Friday and The White Plague address this matter presciently. I do expect either decentralization - gated communities - or militarized customs unions. I personally don't have a problem with a North American Customs Union with a uniform currency and border control uniting the US, Canada, Mexico, Central America & the Carribean or even the entire Americas.
Each nation would retain its sovereignty except for a uniform policy on immigration and import controls, customs inspections and matters of entry. One could move to Argentina simply by up-and-driving. But of course, we would need all the member states actually to guarantee people's rights, unlike Cuba and Venezuela to name a few, and to do it with less corruption than say, Mexico or Newark.
If you draw a biological analogy, it is cheaper to have one giant bi-continental union with a relatively small border-to-area ratio than to have ten thousand gated city states, each with its own border counting not only the coasts, but also internal political frontiers.
In order to have a bi-continental customs union, we'd have to give up on the war on drugs. Or we could simply have a new international drug police force, but then we'd need a Hitler to implement the second option. So I myself prefer ending the war on drugs. It's simpler, and we don't need to interview for the position of Fuehrer.
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