This is the Last of the Nice is a story about the loss and alimentation felt by the protagonist and/or narrator of the story. We see that the hero’s wife leaves to go rafting later sending him a postcard stating that she won’t be back.. The blow causes him to join group therapy where he compares his situation to junior high where men like him stand against the wall at the gym knowing they will never be invited to dance. The author is responding to a life experience that causes him to feel alone and a victim of fate. The idea being that self discovery continues throughout life as does self delusion people use to get through the crucial events in their life. As the hero spirals through the realm of self discovery he realizes that his life is merely a chain event in the ‘bigger’ realm of events. The simple fact of the story being there are no easy answers to life and no easy solutions to its problems.

Americas Role….

America is the land of the free and as one of the biggest and oldest democracies it must maintain its borders security. The fanaticism and fundamentalism in the world is threatening world security and the only way to ensure that the security of the people of America remains complete is by building and at times showing its military strength. Approach 1 is true to the facts of the world for the situation is such that America’s enemies understand nothing but force and if at times the domestic concepts have to be undermined to withstand outside force we must compromise our domestic rules to ensure that we can survive the future.

Approach 2 suggests that any nation not democratic must be penalized by America, but that is wrong and undermines our own belief in democracy for this would suggest that America believes that only its owns values of rule are right and all others incorrect. This is a paradox of democracy itself and goes against the American concept of freedom for all equally. We must uphold peace but not at the expense of other nations sovereignty---not matter how different it may be from Americas own concepts of rule. The third approach suggests that free trade would balance economics around the world but the failing concept of globalization already suggests that free trade while beneficial to the developed countries undermines the economics of the developing world. Nations is Africa are in no position to compete under the regime of free trade and must be given some competitive advantages initially and once they reach the level of trade developed nations favor they can compete at the same level. The approach is flawed in its concept of equality.