US Elections
Well, it looks like there’ll be four more years of Bush. Even though I disagree with many of the stands the republicans take, most of these concern issues that won’t affect me as a non-US citizen. Subtracting everything that doesn’t affect me I reach the conclusion that this result was for the best. No canceling of free trade agreements and no penalties for companies moving production outside the US are good things.
The one remaining problematic issue is the “War on terror” including the war in Iraq. I hope that GWB will listen more to international opinion on these issues during this term. I believe that the US needs to rebuild some standing and credibility. This is not to say that the US should always follow the “general international opinion” or even what the UN says, only that it should listen more. We need to be able to work together to solve these problems and we need to be able to use many different tools to that end. There are other methods than war and appeasement.
