POLITICS - A More Democratic World?

Boston Globe article, "A more democratic world rejects Bush's globalism" by By Robert Kuttner (co-editor of The American Prospect), February 4, 2006 it food for thought.

In the Middle East, the people have freely chosen two governments that could not be more a repudiation of Bush's vision for the region, nor more alarming to broader hopes of peace and stability -- Hamas in Palestine and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. Even in Iraq, whose election was held under direct American tutelage, our preferred henchmen were decisively ousted.

In Latin America, voters in Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, and most recently Chile, have chosen governments that are social-democratic at best and caudillo-populist at worst. Mexico, where a popular radical, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, leads all polls, is probably next. Some, like Chile's new president, Michelle Bachelet, are admirable, others less so. But none supports Bush's vision of corporate globalism.

The problem is how they see our society. They like our enconomy but do not like the imposition of our culture and diffantlly not "coporate globalism." We need to rethink how we treate other nations and people. Our culture may not fit everyone (suprise, suprise).