vas lend it to them.rnOn a deeper level, however, the West’s failure to conihat itsrnenemies ean be traced to the verv socioeconomic system it seeksrnto protect. In tlieory, the Cold Warriors were protecting thernpeoples of Britain, France, and the Ihiitcd States against thernexpansion of an evil empire, but nations can only be sncccssfulh’rndefended by people who believe in nationhood, which isrnanathema to the liberal assumptions that are the foundation ofrnmost Western states.rnAt the heart of liberal democracy lies the conviction that allrnnations are tiie same or ought to be; and just as all individualsrnarc, in principle, equal and should be able to compete in thernmarketjjlacc for success, so all nations, cultures, and religionsrnarc basically equal, so long as they are willing to enter into thernmarketjjiacc of ideological competition. Liberal nation-statesrncannot control innnigration, restrict citizenship, or protectrntrade, precisely because the nation-state is only a temporary stoprnon the train line that leads to a globalK integrated marketj)laccrnin which we are all — or ought to be—citizens of the world, notrncitizens of tiie United States.rnhi this quest for a global Utopia based on tiie principle ofrnequalih’, modern states have undermined the family, made warrnupon tiic church, and ridiculed every principle of moralit)- andrncommon sense. As a substitute for divine law and the wisdomrnthat comes from human experience, they have offered us a nonsensicalrnphilosophy of human rights, and to enforce thesernrights, they hae broken every moral law known to civilizedrnpeople w liile at the same time celebrating their moral siperiorihrnoer the tribal cultiires of the Balkans.rnIf anxone resists the conversion process, he and his people arernlabeled gcnocidal criminals; CNN will obligingly show doctoredrnphotos of concentration camps and mass graves; internationalrntribunals will declare him guilty of crimes against humanrnrights; and tiie U.S. government will put a price on his h e a d -rnas if that were not in itself a crime.rnDuring die Cold War, the diverse political and economicrnsystems of die West were lumped together under thernrubric of Western Democratic Capitalism. This was part of anrneffort to create a Western ideology with which to oppose Hiernideologv of Marxist communism, but—and it is time to speakrnplainly—the democratic capitalism extolled by Cold War liberalsrn(most of whom called themselves conseratives) and unreconstructedrnTrotskyists (who called tiiemselves neoconservatives)rnhas very little in common with the democracies ofrnSwitzerland and ancient Atiicns or, for that matter, with the oldrnAmerican republic.rnCreek and Swiss democracy worked in small-scale communitiesrnand was actually based on the will of die people, and it hasrnirtually nothing in common with die vast bureaucracies thatrngoern the llnitcd States and the nations of the EiuopeanrnUnion. In fact these systems are the very opposite: For tiicrnC^reeks, the family and the little communit was almost evcrsriiiiig;rntoda)’. Western governments make war on the family andrnon eer littie communit}-, whether ethnic or religious. The attemptrnto create a New Worid Order translates this principle ofrnnational and anti-human bureaucracy to the global level.rnIt is time to set aside the popular misconception tiiat democraciesrndo not wage aggressive war or establish empires. Whornwere the most democratic peoples in history? The Adicniansrnwho, as soon as diey established a democrac}-, created an empire;rn(he Florentines, who subjugated most of central Italy; thernliberal British monarchv of the 19th century that controlled Indiarnand much of Mriea. Wdio were more democratic than thern19th-ccnturv Americans who annihilated the Indians, kickedrnthe Spanish out of Florida, and grabbed a large part of the continentrnfrom Mexico before going on to subjugate the southernrnthird of the republic?rnM odern states have underminedrnthe family, made war upon thernchurch, and ridiculed every principlernof morality and common sense.rnThe triumpliant democrats went on to conquer Cuba andrnPuerto Rico and wage a genocidal war against the people of diernPhilippines. Democracies, both actual (like 19th-eenturyrnAmerica) and phony (like America today), are by tiieir naturernexpansionist because they cater to the appetites of the massesrnand arc enthralled by the rich and powerful. If you have anyrndoubts, consider onk- the history of the United States in thisrneentur)’ or even in the past ten years.rnIn our time, however, “democratic capitalism” is tar fromrndemocratic, and if capitalism has anything to do with die freernmarket, it is not capitalist, either. America is flist becoming arnplutocrac), and teniis like “capitalism” and “free enterprise” arernused loosely to mean a system of transnational corporations thatrnseek to control the world’s business.rnAny attempt to suppress economic freedom, as took place inrnthe former Soviet Union and in die former Yugoslavia, has disastrousrnconsequences both for a national economy and for humanrnsocial life. Even the mixed economic systems of Scandinaviarnand Britain have tended to undermine creativit’ andrninitiative and to destroy social institutions. This is what so manvrnof our potential allies on the left refuse to understand. Theyrnlook at businessmen and see the cnem, but when the same corporaterncxecutie goes to work for the Department of Health andrnHuman Senices, he is working for die good of mankind.rnI”coiioinic freedom is an essential qualit)’of human dignitv’,rnand when goxernments attempt to repress that freedom —asrnthey do in communist and socialist countries —diey are destroyingrnhuman dignit}-. In the West, however, which is siq>rnposedly devoted to economic liberty, governments regulaternsmall businessmen in order to benefit the giant corporations,rnand under misnamed free trade agreements and the WorldrnTrade Organization, a small coterie of multinational executivesrnis attempting to eliminate coiupetitiou, destro}’small economicrncommunities (such as nations), and to replace free enterprisernwith a global economic bureaucracy that will act as a NATOrnwithout weapons, though tiicy will always be able to call in thernNATO troops whenever their usual methods of briben,- and intimidationrnfail.rnFree trade, in fact, neady always .spells empire. Who havernbeen die greatest free-traders of die past two cenhiries? Britishrnimperialists and the bipartisan free-trade imperialists of thernBush-Clinton administrations. Libertarians and classical liberalsrnhave to decide w hether they are going to be frec-tiade impelULYrn2000/1 Irnrnrn