Abstract

Statehood for Micronesia

Inept and disastrous as U.S. foreign policy has become, Vietnam; support of loathsome dictatorships in Greece and Spain; the multiple fiasco in Latin America, the exploding Middle East and, as a consequence of the extravagant global policing and the military super kill obsessions, including nerve gas and until recently germs, the neglect of the pressing issues at home, there lies in between the foreign and domestic failures an area of success and achievement. It is in the colonial or better said the anti-colonial policy. Political and economic equality is not achieved with the elective governorship of two small island possessions, the Virgin Island and Guam. However, the impeding factor in these cases is lack of population and, as yet, an economic self-sufficiency to warrant the ultimate objective it would be difficult to justify statehood for either of them now. The same applies to Micronesia, the trust territory mandated to the United States by the United Nations since 1947.