Not homeland security, but Core-wide security
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 6:03AM "As Jobs Move Overseas, So Does Privacy," by Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal, 10 May, p. A2.
Interesting article about how all this outsourcing of service jobs (like medical transcription) means that not only has individual privacy gone out the door, itís done left the country!
To me, this is yet another example of why drawing the line on Americaís ìhomeland securityî at our borders is a mistakeósomething I recently stated in a New Orleans military conference on the issue. Americaís security is part and parcel of globalizationís Functioning Core, not something we can partition off for our own. When we create a Department of Homeland Security, we send out a signal to the rest of the Core: Weíre getting ours, you get yours.
What this country needs is a new definition of national security that equates to Core-wide security. Too much, you say? We did the very same thing for the West in our Cold War nuclear standoff with the Soviets for decades. We just need to move beyond our definition of the West (Old Core) to include the New Core pillars such as Russia, India, China, Brazil, and so on.
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