Neo Western Liberalism

With his decisive criticism of the way Saddam Hussein was executed, the possible future British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has set out the expanding contours of neo Western and progressive liberalism. In my opinion, this is a significant milestone in Western political thought, and how it approaches the sectarian divides, in resource rich parts of the non Western world, even as the American public, begins to feel the fatigue of American desire to foster Western definitions of democracy in oil rich countries.

I quote from a recent speech given by Bill Clinton at a Labor Party Conference in Manchester, where he was stressing the need for Labor Party to be a party of change. In the august gathering of cynical and career politicians, ( and who may well be voted out in the next British elections, refreshing optimism from an ex US President to a party and Prime Minister that may itself become ex )- Clinton made a plea for political openness in a world that seems to enjoy its own self misery of a walled up existence, what I call "living inside the fence".
He used a South African concept called “ubuntu”. -
Ubuntu in Zulu means, - “I am because you are”
I quote from Ed Howker, writing in The First Post
- Ubuntu derives from Bantu, a southern African language, and relates to a Zulu concept - umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu - which means "a person is only a person through other people".
Clinton said "If one was the most beautiful, most intelligent, most wealthy, most powerful person and then found... that we were alone on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans."
Desmond Tutu's definition: "A person with ubuntu is open and available to others... and doesn't feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished." To read this significant post in the first post see :

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=961