Liberty's Blog

On Why the World should Support Bush.

Rand Simberg Teases with the title "Why I Won't Be Voting For Bush" and links to an artcle written by. Nelson Archer at EuroPundits After explaining his view of the world which is pretty much as a centralist liberal Brazilian. He paints a pretty powerful argument on why he would vote for Bush if he could.

An attack that manages to ground all US and most of the world’s air traffic and close down the stock markets around the planet is something qualitatively different from a bomb in an Ulster pub. Human life is fragile, so is democracy, the world economy, globalization etc. The US can absorb U$ 1 trillion in damages. The rest of the world cannot. The US can survive a nuke in Manhattan. Brazil can survive a nuke in Sao Paulo. But Brazil cannot survive a nuke in Manhattan. What most of the world’s anti-Americans fail to understand is that whatever harms deeply the US harms us even more. Were Africa to suddenly disappear, it wouldn’t make much of a change in the life of New Yorkers. Were NY to disappear, Africa would go along.

So, this is what I have to say for those who think that Americans have overreacted to 9/11. Actually they have under-reacted. One more attack on America and Latin America will be condemned to a further hundred years of solitude and misery.

If he right, and he very well might be, the war on terrorism may be more important to the rest of the than it is even to us.

posted by Liberty @ 1:24 PM