Immigration

Immigration is another topic that has evolved in a way that makes it unfeasible (if ever had been) to deal with it on a local basis. Immigration to the U.S., for instance, is not at a faster rate now than it used to be a century ago, but dynamics and acceptance have certainly changed.

Globalization has spread the message of the appeal for better opportunities, and local solutions are not working anymore. As the Mayor of NYC Michael Bloomberg has pictured it: "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity. You might as well sit on your beach chair and tell the tide not to come in".

Local Terror - Global Terror

The NYT publishes today (Fighting Locally, Fighting Globally - by SCOTT SHANE, 07/16/06) an interesting article about the duality of current terrorism, which spreads sometimes as a single network but has many local motivations independents one from the others.

One of the citation refers to a book by University of Chicago' professor Robert A. Pape ("Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"). The analysis that that book explains found that that 95 percent of attacks worldwide were motivated by resentment of the presence of foreign combat troops. However, intelligence information can not be kept secret regardless of the fact is one of the main purposes of those Agencies. A supranational body should be appointed to fight terrorism. Al Qaida and the global terrorism that has triggered its practices needs another way to deal with it that the used in the past decades for local terrorism. We live in another world now, and we need to learn how to live on it.