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China has been run the same way for centuries.
I think that they are content minding their own business.
I think that is what the US should do.

The present US administraion is a bad example of what our forefathers intended when they wrote the US constitution.

I think the cause of our difficulties is with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that was started in 1947. According to the Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency

There are 3 functions of the CIA:
"Its primary function is obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons, and reporting such information to the branches of the government.

Its secondary function is propaganda or public relations, overt and covert information dissemination, both true and false, and influencing others to decide in favor of the U.S. government.

The third function of the CIA is as the hidden hand of the federal government, by engaging in covert operations. This is done at the direction of the President, and with oversight by Congress.[5] This last function has caused much controversy for the CIA, raising questions about the legality, morality, effectiveness, and intelligence of such operations."

What is "overt and covert information dissemination, both true and false" in the second function ? When was that added ?
Is that a political way of saying it is ok to interfere with other governments even if you have to lie to do it ?
The entire third function should be done away with. That's why there isn't any peace in Iraq. The Al-CIAda.

The "George Bush Intelligence Center" is out of control and should be dismantled.

President Woodrow Wilson gave a speech before Congress 10 months before World War I ended. The "speech served as both the basis for peace and the hopeful establishment of a better post-war world at the conclusion of "the culminating and final war for human liberty."
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wilson-points.htm

The 1st point of the speech is as follows
"Open covenants of peace must be arrived at, after which there will surely be no private international action or rulings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."

Please note "OPEN" & "IN PUBLIC VIEW" needless to say the communications back then weren't very good.

After World War II they tried to establish a lasting peace with a organization called the United Nations. http://www.un.org/english/

The history of the UN includes the following:
"In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States, in August-October 1944. The Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 member states."

The Charter of the United Nations can be read at
http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/index.html

I have copied some of the PREAMBLE below:

" to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

I didn't see anything in there that says that we can have the CIA going into other countries doing covert operations to stir up trouble for other governments.

If you actually think about it, the United States of America hasn't been a very good member of the United Nations and by meddling in the governments of other countries aren't very good neighbors either.

Am I just naive in wanting a world where there is peace and human rights?
We could be working on alternative sources of energy and happy.