I make this argument not based on theory or ideology that on facts. Facts that all too often we forget in the immediacy of current events. Here is the most important fact, the integration of the Global Economy has made life that are for billions of men, women, and children. Over the past 25 years, the number of People Living in extreme poverty has been cut from nearly 40 of humanity to under 10 . That is unprecedented. And it is not an abstraction. That means children have enough to eat. Mothers do not in childbirth. Meanwhile, cracking the genetic code promises to cure diseases that have plagued us for centuries. The internet can deliver the entirety of Human Knowledge to a young girl in a remote village on a single handheld device. And medicine and manufacturing and education and communication, we are experiencing a transformation of how human beings live. On a scale that recalls the innovations in agriculture. As a result, a person born today is more likely to be healthy, live longe
When a lot of the issue start to look gray. When our relationships, first off let me say, i think great power rivalries are here to stay at least for the foreseeable future. It is not a thing of the past but it is different the end it used to be. We do not have a lot of practice with this type of world. The closest thing you might have might be the interwar. Between the two world war wars when there was a kind of balance of power situation but at that time we did not see ourselves as having greater power. Remember, 1929, the secretary of state basically eliminated budget for cryptographic work. Thats how much interest there was an intelligence that then. But then world war ii, we see ourselves as a world power in then we have the unusual time of the cold war. These relationships are all complex. On one hand, we are disturbed with russia. On the other hand, it would be hard to settle syria without it. We probably could not of gotten an agreement with iran without it. We are disturbed wi