American democracy, they say, is an ideal model. And since Tocqueville (who admired it, while detecting the risk of seeing it one day slip into dictatorship), few have ventured to criticize its constitutional principles. Each saw in particular a nearly perfect separation of powers in the interest of the country.
While the Greek crisis seems to move away, the arrival, in the rotating presidency of the European Union, of Poland, sends back to the close and mysterious relationship between money and defense in all human history.
All current events (financial crisis, climate, nuclear or military issues) send back to the need for a global Rule of Law. And therefore, for a new organization of the world.
With the joint statement of the American and French presidents, and British Prime Minister, the military operations in Libya appear, without any debate on this issue in the Parliament of these three countries, to be entering a new phase: it is no longer a question of protecting civilian lives at risk, as required by Resolution Number 1973 of the UN Security Council, but to get rid of Gadhafi.
Two seemingly unrelated topics have occupied and still occupy our minds: the global financial crisis and the nuclear accident in Japan. In fact, they have numerous similarities.
Once again, a problem we thought to be local is becoming global: you liked Californian subprime? You will love Japanese nuclear waste…
Some leaders, including those of France, embarked themselves full of innocent enthusiasm in an uncertain conflict against the mad dictator of Libya, without answering three questions that would have deserved to be publicly discussed…
We must act today differently regarding risk management.
