? ?Some
people say the international community is only a fiction. Others say it is too
elastic a concept to have any real meaning. Some say there are no
internationally recognized norms, goals or fears on which to base such a
community. Oped pages refer routinely to the "so called" international
community. I believe these skepties are wrong. The international community does
exist. It has an address. It has achievements to its credit. ?
?When governments, urged along by civil society, come together to adopt a
statute for the creation of an International Criminal Court, that is the
international community at work for the rule of law. When we see an outpouring
of international aid to the victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Greece, witch
is the international community following its humanitarian impulse. When people
come together to ress governments to relieve the world’s poorest countries from
crushing debt burdens, that is the international community throwing its weight
behind the cause of development. When the popular conscience, outraged at the
carnage caused by land mines, obliges governments to adopt a convention banning
those deadly weapons, that, too, is the international community in
action. ? ?There are many more examples of the international
community at work, from east Timor to Kosovo, but there are important caveats.
Too often the international community fails to do what is needed. It failed to
prevent the genocide in Rwanda. In East Timor, it acted too late to save many
hundreds of lives and thousands of homes from wanlon destruction. The
international community has not done enough to help Africa at a time when Africa
needs it most and most stands to benefit, And it allows nearly 3 billion
people—almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of
unprecedented wealth. ? ?The international system for much of our
century has been based on division and hard calculations of realpolitik. In the
new century, we can and must do better. I do not mean to suggest that an ear of
complete harmony is within our reach. Of course, interests and ideas will always
conflict. But we can improve on this century’s dismal record. The international
community is a "work in progress". Many strands of cooperation have asserted
themselves over the years. We must now stitch them into a strong fabric of
international community for an international era.
In the third paragraph, the writer implies that ______.
? ?Some
people say the international community is only a fiction. Others say it is too
elastic a concept to have any real meaning. Some say there are no
internationally recognized norms, goals or fears on which to base such a
community. Oped pages refer routinely to the "so called" international
community. I believe these skepties are wrong. The international community does
exist. It has an address. It has achievements to its credit. ?
?When governments, urged along by civil society, come together to adopt a
statute for the creation of an International Criminal Court, that is the
international community at work for the rule of law. When we see an outpouring
of international aid to the victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Greece, witch
is the international community following its humanitarian impulse. When people
come together to ress governments to relieve the world’s poorest countries from
crushing debt burdens, that is the international community throwing its weight
behind the cause of development. When the popular conscience, outraged at the
carnage caused by land mines, obliges governments to adopt a convention banning
those deadly weapons, that, too, is the international community in
action. ? ?There are many more examples of the international
community at work, from east Timor to Kosovo, but there are important caveats.
Too often the international community fails to do what is needed. It failed to
prevent the genocide in Rwanda. In East Timor, it acted too late to save many
hundreds of lives and thousands of homes from wanlon destruction. The
international community has not done enough to help Africa at a time when Africa
needs it most and most stands to benefit, And it allows nearly 3 billion
people—almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of
unprecedented wealth. ? ?The international system for much of our
century has been based on division and hard calculations of realpolitik. In the
new century, we can and must do better. I do not mean to suggest that an ear of
complete harmony is within our reach. Of course, interests and ideas will always
conflict. But we can improve on this century’s dismal record. The international
community is a "work in progress". Many strands of cooperation have asserted
themselves over the years. We must now stitch them into a strong fabric of
international community for an international era.
In the third paragraph, the writer implies that ______.
A.the international community has not done as much as we expected B.the international community is capable of action against many things C.people can count and depend much on the international community D.half of the world population have got only a little help from the rich world
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