EconWatch.com > The Split over Trade Is Not Confined to Democrats

[Economist's View] As with immigration, Republicans are no less divided on this issue. First, the article about Democrats: The Coming Democratic War on Free Trade, by Steve Chapman, Real Clear Politics: It's an elementary axiom of economics that if Person A sells something to Person B, it's good for each of them.

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Watchblog.comhttp://www.watchblog.com [Watchblog.com] Democrats & Liberals:: Externalities Rule: The third corollary of International Trade is, “without the power to enforce an agreement no agreement exists”. This fact does bring us back to the phrase “economic imperialism” and how that externality impacts “Free Trade” as a factor in the International Marketplace!

http://gowans.blogspot.com [Gowans.blogspot.com] What's Left: Why Iran?: Where plans to pry open the Iranian economy are concerned, Ahmadinejad is that person, as Hugo Chavez (now described by the US as anti-democratic, though popularly elected (New York Times, January 14, 2006)) is in Venezuela, Fidel Castro is in Cuba, Alexander Lukashenko is in Belarus, Robert Mugabe is in Zimbabwe and Kim Jong Il is in the DPRK. Since the Second World War, it has been common practice to try to equate such individuals to Hitler, a fairly easy task in Ahmadinejad’s case, not because he’s anti-Semitic, but because his hostility to the expulsion of Palestinians as the basis of Israeli can be readily twisted into an apparent anti-Semitism, while his opposition to the idea of a Jewish state in historic Palestine, featuring a single dominant ethnic group by design and intention, can be distorted demagogically to create the appearance he’s committed to a second Holocaust.

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