From "Elect a New Policy for President" by James Srodes, in WORLD TRADE
(June 2000, p. 18), a world-trade promoting magazine:
"Both Gore and Bush [the duopoly party candidates for US President]
advocate diplomatic pressure for prying open foreign markets. More
dangerous, both men believe multinational institutions such as the United
Nations, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization are adjuncts of
the US government and should be used as such whatever other nations
believe. Both men consider NATO a US fiefdom.
"Both men also hold to hawkish global-leadership credos. Gore clings to the
idea that US standards from product quality to accounting standards and
from financial structures to ethics should be the model for other
nations.... Bush takes an even stronger line. Although he supports NAFTA
expansion and free trade in principle, his set-piece idea is 'a distinctly
American internationalism' that is willing to make grudging trade
concessions to strategic allies. ...
"These attitudes lead to uncertainty and fear among our trade partners.
Uncertainty provokes fearful resentment...."
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
