by T. Scott Randolph

Created on: July 14, 2009   Last Updated: July 19, 2009

The key to this debate is in the title. It asks if a single world government is the way forward, not if it is the correct way. Forward is not always correct, it is just forward. When Gatling perfected the rapid fire capability of a hand cranked machine gun, is was not to hunt deer. It made it easier to kill men on the battlefield. Right or wrong it was a move forward in the capabilities of firearms.

We have been slowly moving towards a one world government since the beginning of human agrarian society. As small villages made alliances they became city states, then kingdoms and so on. Today, we have two major branches on the road to this single government. One is the super powers.The now defunct USSR, as well as China and the U.S. use their military, diplomatic and economical influence to control their respective spheres of influence.

It is no secret that items like the Monroe Doctrine were a form of this influence before the one world government was a spoken concept. It made it known that any European interference in the western hemisphere was interference with the U.S. Was it right or wrong? That isn't the point. The point is it was a step toward the single government.

If we go further back, the Roman Empire had a similar philosophy. To them, they were bringing the light to barbarians. In some cases this was the case. In others it wasn't. Either way, as they conquered more and more area, they brought a huge amount of the "known world" under a single government and set of laws.

The other branch on the road I spoke of is the various military, economical, and political alliances that have been formed. If we just leave it to the later half of the 20th century to present, it keeps it much more simple. The spiderweb of alliances that led to both world wars are entities unto themselves that I am not sure anyone past or present truly understands, they were so complicated.

If we look at NATO and its arch enemy of the cold war Warsaw Pact, once again, you take several governments and put them under a (more or less) single leadership. In central and S. America you have the OAS (organization of American States), as well as several similar organizations in southeast Asia and Africa. A single one that seems to be working out well in current times is the European Union. They have their own currency and seem to be taking care of a lot of minor problems "in house" where in the past it could have led to wars.

As far as economical organizations go, a lot of people remember

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