So let's see. G-4 talks just failed in Potsdam. NATO is being routed in Afghanistan--Russia and the US are thinking about pointing missiles at each other again. Is it my imagination or are we back to the drawing board in world relations?
The same difficulties we seem to have in Congress apparently are rubbing off in boardrooms and diplomatic quarters. Somewhere anarchists are smiling.
At a time when we are in dire need of cooperation, perhaps for planetary survival, our best negotiators can't seem to find middle ground.
I am not a huge fan of the WTO as it has historically worked, but it has a place with regard to opening up markets and leveling the playing field among nations. True it is not often what happens, but it is a mechanism where it can, if nations were truly cooperated.
With respect to NATO, we are spending many of our resources on a war that should have ended in Iraq and not focusing effort in a place where actual progress was being made--Afghanistan. Why is it that we can't see the forest for the trees?
On the bright side, the US and North Korea are negotiating to turn off North Korea's reactor. If we can succeed there, perhaps we can in Iran.
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