Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution: "As the U.S. attempts to spread democratic revolution around the world through the sharing of our hope, something insect-like is eating away at our national fabric and forcing growing numbers of us to wonder if the emporer might eventually not have clothes. It’s our country’s repeated failure to adhere to international agreements.
I’m not talking about U.S. failure to heed corrupt multilateral organizations like the United Nations or bureaucratic-till-the-point-of-pointlessness organizations like the World Court or the European Union. On those matters I remain unyielding in criticism until they change. It’s something else.
The U.S. is starting to get a reputation for playing very dirty around international trade matters. Via Club for Growth, an article on NAFTA says there’s been a growing pattern of global scofflawing that doesn’t become us at all. Apparently, we violate every agreement we sign and get ruled against all the time by the WTO. Shamelessly our government just keeps doing it. The Spectator article linked above describes in graphic detail all the shenanigans going on with Canadian lumber. I’m starting to get disturbed by it, because it seems to be part of a pattern."
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment