Diplomacy and Diamonds by Joanne King Herring & Nancy Dorman-Hickson

Author:Joanne King Herring & Nancy Dorman-Hickson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: BIO026000
ISBN: 9781599953823
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2011-10-18T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

They Called Me “Sir”

To me, it’s simple. Socialism and communism promise everything, but they’re actually slavery. They sound good. They represent what I call the Robin Hood dream, where you take from the rich and give to the poor—it just never works. The rich stop giving and the poor stop working. The rich grow weary of giving handouts and the poor stop because they expect support. There is no taking from the rich to give to the deserving poor in any country that has tried communism. In fact, all communist countries have walls to keep people in, not out.

People usually run from communism, not to it. Why doesn’t it work? Government cannot successfully make its people equal. Only markets can do that. It’s been tried for years under many countries and leaders, and it always fails. We must be free to set our own destiny. Our enemies plan to change our thinking by using problems such as racism, poverty, homelessness, and illegal immigrants to make us feel guilty about the imperfections of capitalism. Then they promise they will cure the problem by empowering government. The only government solution to any problem is to make laws that restrict our freedoms. The government believes less human freedom, fewer human mistakes. I disagree. The communist way is an impenetrable bureaucracy that only the dictators can control. Where has that ever succeeded? Russia? China? Vietnam? East Germany? North Korea? Cuba? Chile tried it, and by a U.S.-funded revolution, the people freed themselves from the tyrants. Our press hindered their freedom at every step. Ask any Chilean about life under communism—I think they’d agree.

One look at the two Koreas shows the difference. The North Korean people are starving slaves in a dictatorship that threatens the world. South Korea, under capitalism, is rich and free and a threat to no one. And never forget the German wall, which kept the slaves in, while just across the street in West Germany, the same people became a world economic power.

Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan was the Pakistan ambassador to the United States (and eventually foreign minister) and a great friend of ours. It was through him that Bob Herring was offered the position of Pakistan’s honorary consul in 1973. Bob would have been the only Pakistani consul in the United States at that time, so the offer was not to be taken lightly. Although consuls are not ambassadors and don’t represent heads of state, honorary consuls provide assistance to citizens of their own country and the country they represent. They promote friendship and trade between the two countries.

This would be a distinguished position, a full-time job, with a lot of power to promote goodwill and establish trade. Bob would be called upon to work on many different levels. He was astonished that they would ask him. “I have companies in twenty-six countries, and that is really all that I can manage,” he carefully replied. “I’m very grateful and appreciative and honored.” Then he suggested, “Why don’t you take Joanne?”

“Joanne!” They gasped.

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