A New World Government?

There's some ominous signs out there that the Obama administration is going to start moving toward a New World Government.

Obama has already said in his book, The Audacity of Hope, “When the world’s sole superpower willingly restrains its power and abides by internationally agreed-upon standards of conduct, it sends a message that these are rules worth following.” And he has appointed one of his top aides, Susan Rice as UN Ambassador and has elevated it to a Cabinet position. So he's already moving toward a more conciliatory and amenable position in the world stage. That in and off itself isn't all bad.

But here comes some disturbing news. Gideon Rachman, writes in a column for Financial Times;

A taste of the ideas doing the rounds in Obama circles is offered by a recent report from the Managing Global Insecurity project, whose small US advisory group includes John Podesta, the man heading Mr Obama’s transition team and Strobe Talbott, the president of the Brookings Institution, from which Ms Rice has just emerged. (Also on the advisory group is Sandy Berger, Clinton's National Security advisor that stole classified docs in his pants and socks to hide Clinton's failures to stop Bin Laden and the terrorists!)

The MGI report argues for the creation of a UN high commissioner for counter-terrorist activity, a legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force. Once countries had pledged troops to this reserve army, the UN would have first call upon them.

These are the kind of ideas that get people reaching for their rifles in America’s talk-radio heartland. Aware of the political sensitivity of its ideas, the MGI report opts for soothing language. It emphasises the need for American leadership and uses the term, “responsible sovereignty” – when calling for international co-operation – rather than the more radical-sounding phrase favoured in Europe, “shared sovereignty”. It also talks about “global governance” rather than world government.

But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on. Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: “Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.” As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the “core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law”.


Keep an eye on this, it could quickly gain footing if the world economic crisis worsens.