Improving (American) Diplomacy

AS 2013 DRAWS TO A CLOSE, the greatest threat to mankind appears to be microorganic. Political violence, warfare, which are the same thing, is a great threat because it could lead to mircroorganic or atomic warfare, either of which could end life on Earth. Expert scholars now say that the chances of atomic warfare somewhere in the world soon are very good. It has been pointed out that all armed conflict between nations is based on a conflict over access to rights to mineral resources, particularly land. In our world today, nations are at war over economic differences, and religious differences,those diferences serving as the badkground for mistrust, and lack of cooperation. Venezuela and Cuba, with socialistic governments, get along swimmingly. Neither one of them is Satan incarnate, but the United States seems to think otherwise. Before Castro came to power in Cuba, in 1959, the United States had absolutely no problems with the Cubans. American corporations had the run of Cuba, and American millionaires partied in Havana. But that was a capitalistic Cuban dictatorship, the kind the United States likes. The United States supports all dictatorships which are receptive to corporate capitalism. Castro's socialim kicked out all the American money changers, and the United States decided to turn Cuba into an enemy. Same country, same people, but now, an enemy, all because of economics, all because Cuba no longer allowed Americas to exploit it. In the future, we have simply got to have better diplomacy, and better foreign policy than that, among all nations, everywhere. "The Tragedy of American Diplomcay" by William A. Williams explains it all perfectly; how not to deal with other nations. If the United States would appoint Dennis Rodman Ambassador to North Korea, the situation would probably take a turn for the better.