Social Studies (03/19/2004): "'United Nations' is an oxymoron. Democracies and dictatorships are mongoose and cobra, with no real hope of uniting except opportunistically. But a community of democracies -- that might just work. It already works in NATO and the E.U. The new community is a fledgling, but many readers of this article may live to see it soar. "
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Intriging. But can one humanist idolatry really be better than another one? But we do not find perfection in the world, and certainly Casto is not the moral equivilent of, say, Tony Blair. Why should two-bid murderers and thugs have a disproportionate voice in the world?