World Government by design: America's subservience to the United Nations and transformation into the world's policeman is not accidental but is part of a grand design to establish world government. (United Nations).

As with so many of history's so called trends, America's transformation into global policeman isn't accidental. Official admissions of this little-known truth aren't commonplace, but the do occur. Take journalist Michael Hirsh' stunning comments in a recent issue of Newsweek, for example. Buried more than four pages into an otherwise typical anti isolationism screed entitled "Death of Founding Myth," we find the following:

While the isolationists ... tempted millions with their siren's appeal to nativism -- the internationalists were always hard at work in quiet places making plans for a more perfect global community. In the end the internationalists have always dominated national policy. Even so, they haven't bragged about their globe-building for fear of reawakening the other half of the American psyche, our berserker nativism. And so they have always done it in the most out-of-the-way places and with little ado. In December 1917 the Inquiry, a group of eager reformers who included a young Walter Lippmann, secretly met in New York to draw up Wilson's Fourteen Points. In 1941, FOR concocted the Atlantic Charter in the mists off Newfoundland. The dense woods of New Hampshire gave birth to the Bretton Woods institutions -- the IMF and World Bank - in 1944. And a year later the United Nations came to life at the secluded Georgetown estate of Dumbarton Oaks....So what emerged took us more or less by surprise. We had built a global order without quite realizing it, bit by bit, era by era, with our usual schizoid approach: alternating engagement and withdrawal....Like it or not - and clearly large numbers of Americans still don't - we Americans are now part of an organic whole with the world that George Washington wanted to keep distant.

Leaving aside the snide reference to George Washington, and Hirsh's shifty use of the term "we," what of the claim that America has been deliberately, semi-secretly maneuvered into globalism, that her "berserker nativism" (i.e., patriotism) has been neutralized by stealth and subterfuge?

Background to Betrayal

Hirsh is absolutely correct. America's modern obsession with internationalism, including global militarism, is hardly a grass-roots impulse. It all started, as Hirsh observes, with Woodrow Wilson and the war to make the world safe for democracy. Wilson himself was a left-leaning idealist, in step with the progressives and socialists of his day with their heady designs of making America over in their own image. But, as is ever the case with idealists in the arena of practical politics, Wilson was ultimately the tool of other men, men of cunning and ambition far surpassing his own.

One of Wilson's keepers was Edward Mandell House, a longtime political operative from Texas who had learned to work the levers of power behind the scenes. House had been born into wealth and privilege and had no visceral need for fame. The consummate political insider, House manipulated Wilson's internationalist idealism as a personal confidant to the president but declined any official appointments.

House was the real impetus behind the Inquiry, a semisecret group of internationalist intellectuals including Harvard-trained journalist and co-founder of The New Republic Walter Lippmann. Many members of the Inquiry, including both House and Lippmann, were also involved in the negotiations at Versailles following World War I.