Any terrorist with a European passport can get on a low-cost flight to a Moslem country, contact fellow terrorists and be back in a European city the next day to cause barbaric harm. Rome set limits to its Empire to keep barbarians out but our globalization with the spread of advanced technologies lets them in and out of democratic nations easily and secretly. When the Roman empire fell, civilized conduct survived only in castles and walled towns. We need for our terrorized and globalized world some radical new form of security for peaceful and civilized intercourse among people within a state and with people outside in other states. Modern technologies are all about new efficient practices and advanced communication but they produce also barbarities and evil penetrations. Modern civilized European nation-states created grand armies to keep beyond their borders the grand armies of other civilized nation-states. The European Union has stripped its nation-states of their borders but ironically they were more civilized with them. The disease of terrorism is a cancer that threatens the death of democratic practices in any state that will not make itself healthier in a globalized world by escaping its sick condition as an isolated state. We have to build globally states that are castles of freedom and democracy, but castles who dare to empty sometimes their moats and pull up their drawbridges because united with all the other democratic castles on the globe in a political union. States in a union of states can exist securely like medieval castles anywhere on the globe. The military directed by the central government of the American union in Washington D.C. has supplies stored on a Pacific island necessary to help defend South Korea’s borders. Real security in modern states located all over the globe can only be produced by the powerful central government of a global union. The security that most states produce for themselves is not strong enough to secure a democratic government. A global union of states will be not only a weapon against invasion from without and from terrorism within but also a union in which democracy will be enforced within states by the same central government that also secures their defense.
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