U.S. plays at the dangerous game of Globalism
Elizabeth Sullivan is a journalistic treasure. She
is an all-in-one expert, journalist, reporter, essayist and historian. Any reader who disagrees or agrees knows she has done
her homework and does not merely pick things out from the wire services like so many other reporters seem to do. She wades
right into the meat of the problems of our times.
In the (Dec. 15 ) Forum section, she got into the thick of things again on why the rest
of the world hates us so much. She points out that 15 percent fo Americans say they sometimes go hungry. This is a real indication
that we have a difficult problem resolving our own economic woes while we go around the world telling others how to
live.
The United States is the teenager of world history who tries to tell its elders how
they should act. At the same time, by moving our production and factories to faraway places we have resumed economic colonialism
with the need to protect our interests almost everywhere in the world. Many in the world now see us as a childlike, imperialistic
nation that partakes in a new slave trade based on wage slaves in the cheapest labor markets of the world. It is obvious that
we play like children with globalism, not really knowing how dangerous it is.
(Cleveland's ) The Plain Dealer and all of us should be proud to have such a refreshing
perceptive voice like Sullivan's crying out fromt he wilderness of jingoism fostered by our political leaders and other channels
of the media.
By Ray Tapajna
