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did you honestly think someone was trying to convince you that a foreign government was controlling fed/state affairs? it's insulting that you would assume that is the crux of our discussion. as everyone loves to point out, we (our country) does not exist in a vacuum. although no outside authority tell us how to run our domestic agenda, it does not mean that international forces do not shape our government policy. In the current nation-nation model... we all approach problems from a peer to peer perspective. one nation barters and bargains with another nation. granted, some are more powerful than others... but the power balance is in constant flux. the important thing is that all nations compete along the same body-politic stratification.
if you introduce a body with legitimate powers that presides over nations and not among them, you have changed the fundamental power structure. instead of a nation-nation paradigm, you have shifted to a nation-world gov-nation structure (much like the current state-fed gov-state model we in the US use).
the difference between the two lies in the fact that although our current internal model would resemble a nation/UN model... there would be nothing outside of that political sphere to effect change on the internal machinations. do you see? we have our model... but that system is tempered by undeniable outside influences. a similar model on a world scale would have no such check on its power.
to say that American foreign policy is a dictatorship is quite ludicrous. there are times when our foreign policy moves are squarely oriented at benefiting ourselves... but there are many many other examples of where U.S. involved is demanded and thanked. there are also many instances when lack of U.S. involvement is lamented.
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