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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    No it isn't. You might want it to be but in actual fact it is a collection of nation-states whose interests often collide. Pretending otherwise, in the hope that it might somehow magically come to pass because of that pretence makes no sense whatsoever and can have enormous unintended consequences.
    This is pretty much over my head, Martin, so I'm not going to contradict you. But your post gives the impression that you think I'm making some sort of Lennon-esque pitch for a world without borders. Not so. My point is that the kind of "pull-up-the-ladder" sentiments upstream in this thread show not just a shocking lack of compassion and a repugnant attitude of entitlement, but also a serious failure to grasp what creates "shit-hole" behaviour in the first place.

    OK, those are essentially personal flaws - and I've got as many of those as anybody - but we have a right to expect better from institutions, especially institutions that have the capability to affect the course of history, like the President of the US.
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    Guys,

    Due to having received complaints about some of the posts on this thread, and considering the emotive and also provocative nature of the discussion (and how events are likely to end up in that respect, given what's been said so far), I'm closing the thread before matters degenerate any further.

    Some political discussions can be successfully aired here, and indeed have been in the past, but clearly this isn't one of them.

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