With the release of a Canadian Report from the CSIS Americas Program on the future integration of North American Society, called North American Future 2025, that is the creation of MexiAmeriCanada- I have to say after reading it I am less then impressed by its lack of Pan Americanism. It basically creates a North American Empire that excludes the rest of the hemisphere.
If you want integration and a borderless economy that is a fine goal for any one who honestly believes in free markets, but note that it should be the entire hemisphere and come as a result of sovereign republics that believe in the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy or Bolivarian Democracy and there will be less turmoil in doing it.You do not need to create crisis after crisis to bring a hemispheric society together, the OAS can do that through greater and uplifting cycles of mutual development, free markets, trade even with people we have had historical disagreements with, and prosperity for our citizens ensures we integrate without losing our charters and cooperate on mutual and equal grounds.
Exxon Mobile's portion of the document is just deplorable, as it does not lay a true groundwork for energy security or offer any alternative for development and cooperation.
If you want "borderless" nations, as opposed to a hemispheric visa free zone that is something far different from the pan-Americanism Jefferson or Bolivar advocated and is an affront to their ideals and goals for this hemisphere. That was, as I recall, the ideal that Lenin promoted, and Marx felt would create a world communist society. Again, and it is worth repeating that is not Jeffersonian or Bolivarian Pan Americanism.If you pursue what this report suggests you virtually ensure that many Americans North and South will resist it and wake up unprepared for its consequences.
Americans must be willing to work together as partners now to reassert the Monroe doctrine and remind the world that the Americas are for all Americans from Tierra Del Fuego to Newfoundland and we really have two important models of government, one derived from Thomas Jefferson, the other derived from the Doctrina Latin America of Simon Bolivar, De San Martin and O' Higgins.
Narcosphere news has some good snarky articles on South American integration processes.....and notes, with irony "see some progress has been made, now Uribe attacks and kills left-wing narco-traffickers and Chavez kills right-wing paramilitary narco-traffickers."
Still, it proves that if those two can reach a deal on these kinds of security issues, anyone can.
There should be these two alternatives (Jeffersonian and Bolivarian) that are the unique products of arguably the two most extraordinary American minds- if you choose to proceed with an American community this is a good way to do it.
The other way virtually ensures we are at war for the next century or so.....it is possible that many times these wars would be with American countries who are our natural allies.
We must never forget that all Americans are a tiny minority of the world community.
If only we would let them develop their own way and work together with them for the benefit of all Americans: that is the Pan-American vision of Jefferson, Madison, partly Tyler in the north and Bolivar, San Martin, O'Higgins, Miranda and Deodoro da Fonseca in the south.
The other model was British Imperialism and I do not advise we regress to that with a mercantilistic dark age.
The vision I am offering gives you the right to work together with every sovereign nation in the hemisphere without conflict and for mutual benefit, with the British Imperialistic model expect all Americans, north and south, to rage against the machine without understanding the goal.
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