The neocon ideologue Francis Fukuyama tackled that question in his exceedingly ill-timed book The End of History (see the wiki).

“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”

Yep, he actually proposed that the Western model was the ultimate society. And just in time to help convince Bush’s entire team of the idea’s truth, to the extent that they felt it became their right to impose it on the rest of the world, even through preemptive war, if that’s what it took.

Is your idea that the whole of north america, if conjoined, could somehow fare better in their foolish and futile mission than the US could alone? Because that’s just the current play with a slightly modified cast.

Or that humanity will somehow transcend tribal identity, and all our race will accept ‘human’ as their sole label? Because that’s been tried by KJI, Castro, Mau and others of their ilk. That experiment has been done. The results were far, far worse than the necon takeover of Washington in 2001.

(Note: I’ll be testing out British English during the day, to see if it really is a more polished form of communication than American English.)

please take note: Toyota Motors is worth 150 billion dollars.

GM is worth 6 billion, Ford 10 billion.

Enjoy your weekend.