The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.
I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.
Russia is not our friend.
Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.
It's not appealing to deal with countries that express hatred towards us.
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.
