Obama is Disappointed That his New World Order Is a Pipe Dream

President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly today for the last time as President of the United States. In that address, he admitted that the most powerful states in the world have not been able to solve the world’s biggest problems. He lamented what many see as populist and isolationist trends that are undermining globalization, and called for a global “course correction.”

Article by Kitty Testa

“If we are honest, we know that no external power is going to be able to force different religious communities or ethnic communities to co-exist for long,” Obama said. “Until basic questions are answered about how communities co-exist, the embers of extremism will continue to burn. Countless human beings will suffer.”

The answer, strangely, is right under Obama’s nose. The majority of Americans come into daily contact with people unlike themselves. Just today, I’ve had interactions with a supplier in China, ethnically diverse co-workers, an entrepreneurial immigrant named Raj who owns a Tires Plus, the black hostess at the Mexican restaurant, and a Jewish accountant (I’m Catholic). Americans seem more likely to have conflicts with one another based on political party affiliation more than any other factor. And despite furious online debate and some passionate protests, we are not warring with one another, but rather doing business with one another. Voluntary commerce is the key to a more peaceful world—so why does this elude so many world leaders?

When not mired in scandal, the United Nations is indeed mired in hubris. This collection of 193 unequal partners in the push for global governance has a mission to preserve world peace. While world peace is or isn’t being achieved, the U.N. is busy with an aggressive social agenda based on Western secularism. It also aims to implement economic development where it is lacking, and it vigorously promotes environmentalism. These goals are at odds with many world cultures, and even operate at cross-purposes, especially when attempting to balance economic development and the demands of global environmentalists.

The U.N. and their global partners in crime, the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization, are hell-bent on engineering the world into a social utopia of equality that can never exist. It is no wonder that our president is disappointed. As Thomas Sowell said, “Cosmic justice is one of the impossible dreams which has a very high cost and very dangerous potentialities.”

The globalist New World Order heralded by George H.W. Bush and embraced by all presidents that succeeded him, is a pipe dream. It has been a catalyst for exactly the extremism it purports to cure. When powerful nations meddle in the affairs of less powerful countries, the result is usually more war, often in the form of resistance and rebellion. World domination is hard.

A freer global market would do more to promote world peace than the exhortations of global peaceniks. Even when we don’t agree with people, we’re usually willing to do business with them, which is why we have so much trade with China. While Donald Trump is interpreted to be an isolationist, one of his greatest complaints is that international commerce is too difficult and America’s trading partners are taking advantage of us, flooding American markets with foreign-made goods and denying American exports into their countries.

And here he has a valid point. World commerce is not free enough, and myriad trade agreements with a variety of nations and blocs of nations have created a thicket of international red tape that prevents people from doing business with one another. On the one hand he seems to see this. On the other hand he proposes more red tape.

While Hillary Clinton champions globalism, she advocates no policies that will allow globalism to work. She advocates for diversity—diversity of everything but thought—and seems to believe that the richness of diverse cultures of which she so often speaks is merely quaint window dressing. It is a fact that diverse cultures have very diverse ideologies, some which are downright scary to others. And somebody from somewhere sometime is going to try to take over the world again, and there will be war and rebellion.

Perhaps these years of serving as president have made Obama more of a realist. In his closing he stated, “Time and again human beings have believed they finally arrived at a period of enlightenment only to repeat cycles of conflict and suffering. Perhaps that’s our fate.”