I call myself a liberal, but I haven't been able to get too worried or excited about the WTO and all those other acronyms. I think a global economy is inevitable, and we have to have international entities like these to make it work. If managed well, a global economy can make nations interdependent, which means they might be less likely to fight with one another.

Yes, I know that globalization can have serious effects on third-world nations, but we need to do our best to ensure that doesn't happen - and not just stick our heads in the sand.

-Joe Offer-

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Yes, I know there's mention of a song in the first message, but I'm afraid that isn't enough to qualify it as a music thread - so I moved the thread to the non-music section and added to the thread title so people will know what it's about.