The unionization of the world continues...
You know about the European Union, how about the African Union? As a concept, it has been around a while, but
some of the more practical details are still being worked out. For example, whether the organization will be more than symbolic:
"The chairmanship of the African Union is a rotating position held by heads of state for one year and gives the holder some influence over the continent's politics but
carries no real power."
Understandably, since many of the individual nations on the African continent do not have control over what happens inside their borders. (One thinks of Somalia, for example)
Now, who will be given leadership over such a tenuous, developing union in its vulnerable years?
How about Al-Qaddafi! Wait, you will say, isn't he a terrorist? Ah, but he renounced terror in 2003. Since then, he has apparently been busy.
"Qaddafi, once ostracized by the West for sponsoring terrorism, has been trying to increase both Libya's global stature and its regional influence — mediating African
conflicts, sponsoring efforts to spread Islam on the continent and pushing for the creation of a single African government."
Oh dear. Those jingoistic Western bullies, holding a little thing like state-sponsored terror against him. Let's see what else he has been up to.
"The Libyan government continues to imprison people for criticizing Qaddafi," said Reed Brody, a Brussels-based lawyer with Human Rights Watch who watched Qaddafi take the helm of the AU. "Hundreds more have been 'disappeared.' Libya
has no independent NGOs and the government tightly controls all forms of public expression."
Ahem. And when the Belgians get you on human rights, after their little incidents in the Congo, it means something. It will be interesting to see how an African union progresses under his leadership. Apparently Sub-Saharan Africa, which has resisted the spread of Islam for decades, is up against a stacked deck.
One can only wonder what will happen when the Crescent rises over Europe as well, as the irreversible demographic shift ensures that it will. When Islam stretches from Indonesia to Britain to South Africa, we may indeed have an interesting situation in the world on our hands. Meanwhile, men like Qaddafi continue to hold positions of influence within the African Union, and the UN.
Having elected our first Arabic president,
who held his first Presidential interview with a Dubai-based TV channel, the US is apparently trying to play catch-up in this new emerging world.
Liberals were nearly dying of embarrassment and chagrin at the fact that we were a superpower leading the world. Their projections of guilt made this the most uncomfortable position imaginable for them.
Now, they have a chance to kill off that excellence which propelled us ahead of everyone else, drop us back down into the crowd (and after all, haven't we all learned in school that no one is any better than anyone else?) and establish us in a comfortably compromised position with those who would take advantage of us. We can only pray that their culture of failure will come back to bite them on this attempt too.
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