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If a supposedly universal policy is seen to be applied inconsistently in order to further one nation's or culture's interests, that policy will lose credibility and be rejected as representing a double standard.
Ultimately, the question is whether South Africa, like Zimbabwe, sees itself as a black African nation with a few unfortunate impurities, or as the “rainbow nation” promoted by Nelson Mandela, a country that is stronger because it builds on its knowhow and celebrates its diversity.
Given that many voters in Europe and the US feel battered by globalization, a populist party that aggressively puts the nation first has a head start against its rivals.
How will the world’s two superpowers, China and the United States, come to terms with the fact that important commodity-exporting regions from Africa to the Middle East to Central Asia are littered with ill-formed nation states?
But, as President Barack Obama put it in 2011, “The US has been, and always will be, a Pacific nation.”
They talk of family, morality, nation, but their policies lead to NATO, the European Union, massive foreign investment, international capital, and globalization – all things that appear to undermine the communitarian values of the right.
Sean Hannity, another star host at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News, demanded repeatedly on air from one interviewee, Fareed Zakaria, a well-known columnist at Newsweek with a CNN talk show of his own, whether he thought America to be the greatest nation on earth.
So it boggles many non-Americans’ minds that so many in that great nation still do not wake up to the reality that four more years of Republican rule will further degrade and bankrupt the country.
Walking that long, winding road to Europe has helped a weak new nation to strengthen and survive.
The US must renounce the imperialism of the dollar, and Germany must abandon its dream of a “deutscheuro,” managed as if the other 16 euro members were historical and cultural extensions of the German nation.
But, in that same speech, Trump betrayed the superiority he ascribes to Israel: “Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital.”
The Congressional Budget Office, for example, has forecast that the US deficit is on course to triple over the next 30 years, from 2.9% of GDP in 2017 to 9.8% in 2047, “The prospect of such large and growing debt,” the CBO cautioned, “poses substantial risks for the nation and presents policymakers with significant challenges.”
While a nation has a clear interest in the benefits of free and open trade, it also has a vital interest in its citizens’ safety.
As the first United Nations Human Development Report put it in 1990: “People are the real wealth of a nation.”
It is the kind of message that unites the nation, left and right, in grim resolve.
It is a democracy, not a one-voice nation, and, with a general election due in February, debate is continuing both within the government and beyond it.
In fact, the PiS government is attempting to reshape Poland’s WWII narrative – and not in a whisper – with a new law criminalizing mention of the complicity of the “Polish nation” in the crimes of the Holocaust.
For years after the war ended, the Netherlands propagated a narrative in which the Dutch nation struggled heroically to save its Jews from the Nazi extermination machine.
This effort was to be the means through which a weary, dusty nation was to find a better economic future.
All this violence is incited by rebels who number barely 40,000, not much in a nation of 40 million.
We are restoring our once-vibrant nation, and the crucial component -- hope -- has already been revived.
Moreover, communal rights have progressively been accorded to the various groups that compose a nation.
None of this progress, however, has been accompanied by the strengthening of our citizens' sense of responsibility to their nation.
Iraq remains a state without a common nation.
Afghanistan is the mirror image of Iraq: a nation without a state.
Even though the US was not the first to call for military action, its participation in the mission was essential and confirmed its status as the one indispensable nation in the Western alliance.
Pakistan's War of All Against AllThe alliance in the fight against terrorism between Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf and the United States is imperative not only for America, but for Pakistan-a Muslim-majority nation whose social fabric is being torn apart by militancy and lawlessness.
It is, after all, a European nation in cultural, if not political terms, whereas progress in China will not be measured by the introduction of Western-style democracy, but eventually, one hopes, by Singapore-style rule of law.
And his crackdown on illegal immigration and ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries signals his commitment to a “pure” American nation.
In Gabon, the priority for France is to transcend neo-colonialism without losing its important links to the oil-rich African nation.
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