Leaving aside the academic character of this debate of whether and how we should "globalize ourselves," what's painfully clear is that the U.S. citizenry needs to become more engaged with, or at least aware of, the rest of the world than it currently is. You can't credibly reject what you don't understand, and much of the resistance to change or influence from the outside is based in ignorance.
Compromise, rather than absolutism, has been the watchword of anti-abortion efforts for some time now. But the pro-life movement can't give up on overturning Roe without giving up on its very reason for being.
Forget the predatory lenders, Wall Street sharks and their government enablers: The current economic crisis, and the housing bubble that produced it, all started with George Bailey.
Leaving aside the academic character of this debate of whether and how we should "globalize ourselves," what's painfully clear is that the U.S. citizenry needs to become more engaged with, or at least aware of, the rest of the world than it currently is. You can't credibly reject what you don't understand, and much of the resistance to change or influence from the outside is based in ignorance.
Posted by Bill | May 8, 2008 7:21 AM