China is concerned about Central Asia and about the Chinese in Indonesia. That those bloody borders may soon move across the Atlantic does not concern our rulers, not because they are unaware of the threat but because some of them do not expect the United States to be around for much longer. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott declared his belief that the United States may not exist in its current form in the 21st century because nationhood will become obsolete. But far more remarkable was Talbott s espousal of ideological globalism before he joined Clinton s team. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century citizen of the world will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st . . .
All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances.
No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary. Talbott s ideology demands urgent scrutiny. The destruction of traditional culture and community and its replacement with a nomadic civilization in which man will lose his substantial link with the place where he lives is neither inevitable nor desirable. In Russia, however, the debate is in full swing. To the upholders of this project the nation ceases to be the inner substance of the state.