A new imperialism?
Pfaff, William
and chemical weapons--the fact that only a few such weapons can endanger the lives of millions, and perhaps the very peace of the world. Yes, other nations possess similar weapons. However, no...
...In Japan, where the East Asian model originated, the nation's ability to adapt its economic system to changing circumstances in the 1990s was handicapped by the country's political lethargy, a legacy of World War II and of the cold war...
...The new Western offensive means no damage...
...WILLIAM PFAFF A ME~ |MPER|AL|SM*g Free markets have cultural costs war between economic societies is going on...
...Many then argued that the East Asian economic model in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan was superior to the Western model, and that the United States should try to adopt its practices...
...What such societies need is not the deregulation urged by Western financial institutions and governments, but the opposite: uncorrupt and disinterested regulation...
...This is dangerous, just as colonialism was dangerous...
...Such was the concern of an influential 1975 Trilateral Commission study...
...If his wife can live with him, why should we care...
...Colonialism undermined and sometimes destroyed the moral underpinnings of colonized peoples, producing violent reactions...
...The subtext of l'affaire Clinton is that old law of nature: the most powerful male can have all the females he wants...
...If you're young and nubile, he may beckon to you...
...Elsewhere in Asia, the lasting consequences of the present economic crisis may be more destructive...
...As well as threatening U.S...
...That does not seem really understood today...
...There are moral limits to what the U.S...
...What matters is whether he's doing what we elected him to do...
...Afterward, as you fly past your plainer colleagues on your way to the basement, console yourself: at least you have seen the view from the top baboon's penthouse, while they--with all their integrity and hard work and brains--will never get past the barrier...
...Who allows him to do this...
...The United States, ambivalently backed by Europe and Canada, is attempting to force the replacement of crucial economic and social institutions in the non-Western world with institutions drawn from its own experience and that of Western Europe...
...This is not because I'm a Clinton-basher...
...should do and practical limits to what it can do about Iraq...
...In these countries, resources and industry are controlled by family or clients of the ruler, or of the ruling political class, who in turn enrich Western investors prepared to pay the required tribute...
...bombing campaign...
...But it is a war of society and culture, and causes damage...
...It is a legitimate outgrowth of East Asian social institutions, developed over the course of the region's history...
...She may be powerful in her own right...
...It's about possible obstruction of justice...
...In the West he is unlikely to have a state-supported harem, but he is allowed to keep a wife, a mistress, and any number of sexual servants at his disposal...
...Thankfully, none were launched...
...Look up, women: you can' t miss it...
...Well, I for one find sex fascinating, and having been grounded by the flu just when Monica hit the airwaves, I relentlessly watched the alleged scandal unfold...
...forces, Iraq targeted Israel with these missiles and with remote-controlled planes equipped with germ bombs...
...Its goal is deregulation and integration of the world economy, so as to impose the economic standards and practices, and, in important respects, the manner of life, of the capitalist West...
...The campaign originated in the strug gle against the Communist economic model...
...If it weren't for those questions of perjury and the electoral mandate, we would certainly not be watching all those prurient commentators, now would we...
...Those who Commonweal 6 March 13, 1998 expect the crisis to result in a widespread adoption of something resembling the American market economy, however, are mistaken...
...The East Asian model, of course, should not be confused with the essentially feudal economic system which exists in Indonesia and some other Southeast Asian countries...
...Well, one of them might...
...Japan's success in the future will undoubtedly depend more on political reform than on economic adaptation...
...However, a decade later Soviet Communism collapsed of its internal contradictions, both political and economic, as George Kennan and a few others had foreseen...
...If the top baboon can have all the females he wants, it's clear where he's sitting...
...Now the attack once again comes from the West...
...She bears his children, speaks for him when he cannot be present, counsels him at Commonweal 7 March 13, 1998...
...But doing all that can justly be done to deprive Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction remains one of the best ways the U.S...
...But I am really watching because I am amazed at women's willingness to overlook men's perfidy...
...We all do--especially when we say that allegations of sexual misconduct are relatively unimportant, as long as the alleged perpetrator tells the truth about them...
...The West's drive toward globalization demands elimination of "backward," "inward-looking," "protectionist" structures in other societies, so as to incorporate the members of those societies into the Western-dominated global economy as consumers and produce r s - t o the West's advantage, obviously...
...More recently, in China (and Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia), an imported Marxism attempted to destroy inherited moral structures...
...However, no other nation but Iraq has demonstrated a willingness to use them...
...Take a breathtaking ride up the elevator past that glass barrier, right into the inner sanctum of power...
...But it, too, had, and has, an internal contradiction: its dependence upon exportled growth is ultimately irreconcilable with its protectionism...
...China today is probably closer to this feudal model than to East Asian capitalism...
...I voted for him twice, and I hope he is eventually found to be pure as the driven snow...
...Otherwise the West would not be doing it...
...These lie behind both the East Asian economic model and Asian economic feudalism...
...Make him feel good and be rewarded with small gifts and better jobs...
...However, Iraq has yet to account for at least 150 of those weapons...
...Western colonialism, in its day, was a moral challenge to Asian civilizations...
...can advance peace in the Middle East...
...G, 1998, Los Angeles Times Syndicate LaVonne Neff POWERFUL MEN When philandering becomes misogyny O f course, this isn't about sex...
...Gosh, we're all so grown-up...
...They now are under implicit attack from the West...
...The moral foundations of East and Southeast Asian civilizations have been religiously based hierarchical political structures and patriarchal social and family structures...
...This campaign is inspired by American economic theory, promoted by American economic and business publicists, and waged by America's industry, commerce, and government...
...It should be remembered that the UN has documented that during the 1991 Gulf War Iraq built and loaded twenty-five germ warheads using botulinum toxin, anthrax, and aflatoxin on missiles capable of striking targets 400 miles away...
...The damage has political consequences...
...Sex may have been all we thought about in the late sixties, but we're far beyond that now...
...Moreover, in trying to assess the magnitude of the threat presented by Iraq's refusal to account for all its weapons, some important facts bear repeating...
...Until the 1980s, many in the West believed that the Communist model, in its Russian and Chinese versions, could defeat the West...
...The East Asian model will be modified in the course of the present crisis, but it is reasonable to believe that it will survive with its fundamentals unchanged...
...It is a war which may prove as important to modern history as the rise and fall of imperialism and colonialism...
...Western capitalism's intellectual and moral foundations have been Western Christianity and Enlightenment liberalism...
...I confess I've been startled to hear countless fastidious people denying any interest in Clinton's sex life (though at parties, after a drink or two, they begin calling him the Unabanger, and worse...
...She certainly shares her husband's glory...
...Clinton's sex life is his own business...
...For there is also a top female: the wife...
...In the end the empires withdrew, but they left a great deal of wreckage, and in some places a legacy of hate...
...The likely consequence of any possible future attack on Israel--the retaliatory use of nuclear weapons--certainly represents a far greater threat to Iraqi civilians than either sanctions or any limited U.S...
...In purely economic terms, the centrally directed East Asian model for national industrial mobilization was a much more serious challenge than the l~eninist planned economy had been...
...His bright pink rump is planted firmly on the glass ceiling...
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