THE HUNTINGTON WORLD MODEL

The Huntington model views the world as it is not as we (the US) would like it to be. The problem with our present, and our long standing, diplomatic policy is that we don't consider the real cultural nature of our so-called allies and enemies.

The truth is that some nations we now consider, or have considered, as allies are really culturally opposed to our type of democracy, freedom, and method of governing. We should really consider them as non-friendly or even enemy nations as far as our relationship with such nations is concerned today. Examples are nations that pretend to be democratic but are really religious dictatorships, despotic, communistic, or monarchies that support cultures and activities that are secretly against our culture or even openly attack our government or its institutions. Treating such countries as allies or as trading partners is courting disaster for the US.

The world situation we have now is that we have a serious and sometimes deadly confrontation of ideologies of the major cultures. We as a free democracy are under serious pressure by cultures that are each trying to dominate the world and neither of which are compatible with our culture. We know who they are and what they are doing but our government acts as if there is no problem and that we can really get along with these cultures. Nothing is further from the truth. It is really a case of "them or us" and someday if this situation is allowed to persist, we will be forced to accept what we don't like and don't want as a foreign culture that will control our government and our very lives.

The present world situation, if I have my history correct, is very much like that of the late 1930's when the fascist powers were rising to world powers and both Germany and Japan were on a path to world conquest. At the same time the US refused to accept the true nature of the threat and did nothing until it was almost too late to stop the fascist flood. In fact in the late 1930's the US shipped many tons of scrap iron to Japan which they used to build a massive naval fleet that we would eventually have to fight against.

We should be very careful when picking our allies and our trading partners that they are like us culturally and are democratic. Also we need to be more aggressive in protecting our interests, our technology, making sure that we are militarily strong, and constantly improve our homeland security against terror threats. We cannot let down our guard.