[ga] war on terrorism trough internet - as seen in 2000
I went to the US policy Mecca (
http://newamericancentury.org
) and searched for "Internet". A part from learning that the Internet was invented by ... Al Gore, I read this of some interest.
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The ?new security agenda? that Vice President Gore lays out is a shopping cart brimming with serious, semi-serious and less-than-serious policy concerns. However, the serious concerns are hardly new; conversely, the new concerns distort the concept of national security. According to the vice president, in addition to the traditional security concerns with war, peace and alliances, his administration would expand its security focus to include not only terrorism and the international drug trade, but also corruption abroad, pandemics, ecological problems, empowerment of third-world women and children, ratification of the Kyoto Agreement, and expanding access to the Internet.
This is a strikingly original definition of what constitutes American national security. More striking still is the manner in which Gore would address them: a renewed, even expanded, commitment to multilateralism. Claims Gore: ?To meet these challenges requires cooperation on a scale not seen before....[T]he world today demands reinvigorated international and regional institutions.?
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I never known why I was not excited by Mr. Gore. But his suggestions seem to be either adopted or in the way to be imposed by reality to his successfull challenger.
Would that be that simple wrong ideas are always more successfull than corect complex ideas. (Tocqueville).
jfc