If W’s statement about running this country like a business holds out:
- The dollar will be worth about 60% less than the Euro
- He and Disappearing Dick will get zero interest government backed loans so that they can buy T-bills.
- Female federal workers will start posing for Playboy’s Women of Federal Government issue.
Why is it that this administration has decided to isolate America from the rest of the world? We won’t back the Kyoto accord. We waffle on supporting the War Crimes Court. We decry other countries for abusing the basic freedoms of its citizen while ours are brushed aside by an Attorney General so afraid of the human body that he has nude statues covered.
Self-interest. This national is firmly wrapped in itself. Certainly, that is what our leadership displays. And in this day and age, that kind of self-interest imposed isolation is dangerous.
It’s time for someone to it this nation’s leadership down and teach them about the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Mathematician Albert Tucker created the prisoner’s dilemma and it has become the classic zero-sum game example used in biology (see Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene), computer science, social science, etc. It boils down to this:
You and I have been arrested for supposedly committing a crime. The guards put us in separate interrogation rooms. We have the following options, taken from this website, a very good description of the prisoner’s dilemma and discussion of its implications):
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