STORM2K

I don't see the problem with space-based weapons, mainly because they would be too damn expensive to be much use to anyone.

My question then will be, if North Korea wants to send people to outer space and built the own satellites, will they be allowed? Of course the US is not going to allow such thing to happen because it threatens it's stability. The big will always have control of the small. This is not democracy, this is "superiocracy", the big one rules.

My question has always been, why the US doesn't allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons when the US has developed nuclear weapons. The answer is always the same, because Iran is going to use it against the US or other US-friendly country. Then I say, how can you prove that? The answer is always, because Iran is a muslim country. To me it's ironic how the US and other powerful countries always play with the little countries and try to govern them through the UN regulations.

Is that the type of democracy we want to export to the world? I understand everyone fears another attack or futher attacks from Osama Bin Ladin and his groups, but you can't go around the world censoring people from doing stuff because you think it may hurt you in the future.

For many years most Americans forgot that there was a world outside the US, and now what we are doing is basically censoring the world to go back to that time? I don't think we can censor the world anymore. We are now a world in all sense of the word. I mean, before if something happened in India no one cared because they were not affected by the event. Today if something happens in India then there are planetary repercutions.

Hurakan, the short answer that I can give you is that democracy is an internal system and today synonymous with representative government. No country acts in such a fashion on the world stage, respecting the individual rights of other nations, they act purely in their national interests. The only difference between small and large countries, or Western Pluralism and Islamic Revolutionaries on the world stage, is what they perceive as their national interests. But even then, they value many of the same things.

Politics among nations is the pursuit and protection of power, Hans Morgenthau would say.