FT.com / Columnists / Gideon Rachman - And now for a world government
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.
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.
And maybe even in America’s lefty-commie armpit, San Francisco.
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Sieg Heil. Adolph would have liked the idea.
Inching towards Pournelle’s CoDominium?
Brave New World, here we come, ready or not…
George Orwell, wherever you are, eat your heart out.
More like sprinting.