Posted by
rycK on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:07:28 PM
The Intrinsic Incoherence of
Leftist Economic Logic and Other Follies
We must
all be educated in some manner and form and try to adapt the distillates of our
lessons to solve practical details of our lives. We can be taught the
essentials of balancing a check book, how to drive a car, ways to garden and
keep and hold a job and, in some limited sense, how to invest our excess monies
in our futures. There are exceptions to this notion, however, and they manifest
themselves in the errant behavior or drug addicts, certain Methodists and
primarily in leftist economic analysts.
Today, in
the New York
Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers we are
entertained by new and wondrous theories on the salvation of Africa, a
tantalizing problem that has captured the imagination of the left for at
least a small part of the last 7,000 years.
A question is posed about the
ongoing mess in Rwanda and The Congo:
“The international community has worked hard to resolve the
conflicts among the various parties: the sovereign states of Rwanda and Congo as well as the
assorted militias and private armies that are sponsored by these two
governments and by opportunistic local warlords. But despite the deployment
of 17,000 United Nations peacekeepers, and many efforts at
mediation with constructive American support, the situation appears intractable.”--
Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace? By Herman
J. Cohen Op-Ed Contributor Published: December 15, 2008 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
The word intractable here is
key. How could the efforts of the
vaulted United Nations fail? Oh, but did they ever succeed in anything but
rhetoric and money grubbing. Could we ever have suggested any mechanism for
‘peace’ in Africa that would not become frozen in intractability? The lesson here
is that well-meaning leftists [yes some appear to be so] will explore any
means, particularly if the tax monies of US taxpayers are abundant, to attempt
to resolve the outcomes of ancient practices of tribalism now complicated by
Marxism.
“The failure of international
diplomacy is
related to the economic roots of the problem, which began with the 1994
genocide in Rwanda. “
We need to cut this sentence short at
the first five words and reflect on some history. Can the left still expect
some favorable outcome to spring forth like daylilies in July from the efforts
of ‘diplomacy’ given the failure of this nostrum since, say, since 1600 or so? Where was the diplomacy that
prevented WW1 or WW2 or the Crimean War or The War in the Malvinas? Indeed, The failure of international diplomacy is rooted everywhere if we
wish to believe that such a fanciful notion of debating wars, famines and
hatred can be resolved like ‘gentlemen’ around the hearth with a hefty glass of
brandy and a pipe full of latakia tobacco. This is lunacy.
“The
genocidal war between the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi in Rwanda spilled into Congo…”
Here, half a deliberation rides precariously on
half an observation. Why not, we can ask, try to stop the genocidal wars
induced by tribalism by eliminating or minimizing tribalism as a first thought?
One expects from a leftist a ‘root cause’ analysis and then
some mumbling about a new social program here. But, the salient issues are
omitted. We are going to ignore tribalism and throw money on the drum for peace in our time. The fact here
is that any leftist is prevented from
criticizing any aspects of the disgusting and primitive cultures of Africa like murder, genocide,
mayhem, tribalism and the inane practice of Marxism because they are all off the list of
solutions. We must not criticize Africans. When
bodies float down the river in Rwanda we must send money.
“….history
of the conflicts………yadda yadda ydadda……….”
And the
clincher:
“After
his inauguration, Barack Obama should appoint a special negotiator who would propose a framework for an economic
common market encompassing Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.”
Yes! Let
us ignore 7,000 years of tribalism and
more than a half century of vicious
Marxism and construct some economic wonder zone that will produce peace by
sharing in commerce!
“If undertaken with enough will and persistence, an American-led mediation to create a common market in East Africa could end the war and
transform the region.”
How about a British or French mediation here?
Why us? Why not Japan or Brazile? How much does ‘enough” will and persistence cost in
US dollars? We cannot solve similar problems like this in Baltimore or New Orleans.
Such moronic blather from a Clintoonery Era apparatchik
is expected now in the Obama Regime where we can merely throw money over the
fence and hope to hear the dogs stop barking.
This is
such a farce.
rycK
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