Clinton: Prepare for globalism - a future when America no longer "the biggest dog on the street"

The Villager ^ | January 19, 2002 | Elizabeth O'Brien

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Clinton talks on the global economy at N.Y.U.

Former President Bill Clinton called on an audience of students to prepare for a future when America will no longer be "the biggest dog on the street" at the keynote address Tuesday of a New York University forum on globalization.

The current globalized world is not sustainable economically, politically or from a security vantage point, Clinton said at the second annual conference co-sponsored by New York University and the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. Clinton spoke to an audience of about 450 students and guests.

"On Sept. 11, 2001, members of Al Quaeda used the forces of globalization - open borders, easy immigration, easy travel, easy access to information technology - to kill 3,100 people from 70 countries in three cities in the U.S.," Clinton said.

There are ways to improve our security without sacrificing civil liberties, Clinton stressed. For starters, our government needs to start using the same kinds of tracking systems employed by direct marketers and credit card companies, he said.

With such technology the government in a short period of time can track people who have multiple addresses on file, such as Sept. 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, who had 12 addresses registered in the U.S, Clinton said. The government could also monitor people who have accrued a lot of credit card debt, he added, giving the example of the Sept. 11 terrorist who racked up $260,000 of debt on 30 credit cards.

Profiling people according to their movements or debt is much preferable than "profiling people because of their religion or ethnic heritage or whatever else," Clinton said, adding that people with such extreme habits were "either rich or up to no good."

The former president also touched on topics including the nuclear crisis in North Korea, economic initiatives in Africa, the Kyoto protocol on global warming and primary education in Mexico and Brazil. He said that the U.S. must help create a global society with "shared benefits, shared responsibility and shared values."

Clinton acknowledged that, "this is not the sexiest subject on the block." But he tried his best to add some flair with the analogy, "If none of us ever joined anything unless we got our way all the time, nobody would get married."

Students had high marks for the former chief executive.

"He throws out a lot of different tidbits of information about different countries," said Hiss an Baja, a 22-year-old first-year law student from California, adding, "The reason I came to N.Y.U. Law is because it's known as the global law school."

The day featured three panels on important topics in the globalization debate. Panelists included Robert Rubin, former secretary of the Treasury; Sandy Berger, former National Security Advisor to President Clinton; and George Soros, the investor and philanthropist. Moderators included Bernard Shaw, C.N.N.'s former anchor; and Karen DeYoung, associate editor at the Washington Post.

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[Fred Mertz]

You've got to read this....it's disgusting.

[JulieRNR21]

Fred Barnes said it best: "Cinton may not have been our worst president but it was certainly the worst man to be president!"

Seems like everytime he opens his mouth...SH*T HAPPENS!

[Quix]

Yes, Russia has great gaping gouges of rust in their being.

But some missionaries and others [defectors] assert that it's also a huge proportion of a ruse, a charade--that masses of funds and efforts have been directed at much fewer defense projects but which are kept much in the ready and much up to speed technologically.

The future will tell.

[Quix]

Well said.

And that we who know have allowed so many friends and neighbors to be so ignorant is an indictment on all of us.

[Quix]

Well said.

[blackbart.223]

"Traitor, pervert, war criminal, rapist, murderer bump."

Bill Clinton is a modern day Benidict Arnold. He deserves only our contempt.

[ContentiousObjector]

I would put my money on china or india, hell it could be mongolia or eritria if America can't figure out how to educate our children

[Quix]

I've forgotten,

But as horrid as that was,

I think it would be too nice for Dilldo and Shrillery.

Was he drug through the streets? I forget.

[Quix]

Our posterity . . .

Thankfully, some are wiser than their parents.

But I wonder what the percentages are.

How many smoke up, shoot up and waste their time and brains in destructive, at least wasteful activities.

[hedgetrimmer]

I have said the threat is NOT Russia, it is the export of their communist ideology. Communism is THE BIGGEST THREAT to the US in the world today. Communism from without and communism from within.

China is racing us and they going to pass us very soon.

"After a decade of secretive preparation, China disclosed plans yesterday to launch a manned spacecraft this year, an achievement the Communist government hopes will win it public support at home and respect abroad.

A successful launch would stand as a trophy to China's progress after two decades of economic reform. It would make this only the third nation -- after Russia and the United States -- capable of sending a human into space on its own."

http://www.post-gazette.com/world/20030103chinaspaceworld1p1.asp

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-00zzp.html

"China aims high with Mars mission

Dry, lifeless and red, the area around this remote settlement, from where the first Chinese astronaut will be launched into space — possibly later this year — looks like a Martian landscape.

It provides inspiration for an ambitious space program to conquer first the moon and then Mars. Despite the cost, estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars, and immense technical difficulties, China boasts that it will beat the United States with a manned mission to Mars."


http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020819-2309194.htm

"On the model Mars base, a row of oil derricks overlooks a long series of domes ready for human habitation."

I don't think NASA has one of these, do you?

"Twenty years ago, people of my parents' generation never thought they would be using computers today," he said. "In my lifetime, Chinese science is speeding up, and I'm sure I will land on Mars before 2040."

They are very determined, much more that America.

[Quix]

The most critical education of our children occurs when mommy and daddy model how to behave in the world 24/7 in front of their children.

When they say X and do Z, the child begins to think there is no truth and nothing matters. If it feels good, do it. To blazes with the details.

Civilization doesn't maintain well, much less progress well on that.

[HAL9000]

There are ways to improve our security without sacrificing civil liberties, Clinton stressed. For starters, our government needs to start using the same kinds of tracking systems employed by direct marketers and credit card companies, he said.

Ping.

[I'm ALL Right!]

He certainly did his part to aid the change.

My thoughts exactly. He's a commie traitor, masquerading as an American. Exile the b*stard.

[canuck_conservative]

"I don't think NASA has one of these, do you?"

What, a MODEL of a Mars Base? Big deal, look in any large Hollywood movie studio.

And from the very article that you linked to in that post, I found this gem:

"Western scientists are skeptical that a country that has not yet put a man into orbit is serious about tackling Mars."

So let's see the proof in actions - talk is cheap.

[Quix]

Perhaps we could persuade him to be an adventurous aquanaut taking an experimental High School science fair submersable to the bottom of the Marianas Trench?

Perhaps the pressure would finally close that mouth of his.

[Fred Mertz]

I'd like to read how dirtboy dissects this.

I forgot to ping him on my previous reply.

[Quix]

Certainly the Chinese can boast and posture.

But they are fanatics about making their leadership pronouncements come to pass AT LEAST to the degree they postulated.

[blackbart.223]

"You can find a quote for any viewpoint, especially if its pro-foreigners, but the bedrock fact remains that China doesn't have the freedom or values that would support a U.S.-stength economy."

It wasn't long ago that it was posited that Japan's business savy would detroy The U.S. economy. It didn't happen. China is in less of a position to do so.

[Rockitz]

Bill Clinton- The Manchurian Candidate?

I think so.

[Consort]

Bubba is blazon new trails
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