<story><title>Arguments for TPP don’t make sense</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/30/arguments-for-tpp-don-make-sense/W8WNu5IR9xkhzsqYV0pBWK/story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>Not to hijack the better points of the article, because it&amp;#x27;s a good one, but this line is telling:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;The White House’s efforts to portray the treaty as critical to national security simply underscores its inability to make a case for the agreement on the basis of economic benefits.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you can&amp;#x27;t make a cogent argument, just flail your hands about and yell &amp;quot;National Security!&amp;quot; You wouldn&amp;#x27;t dare try to impede national security!&lt;p&gt;Those two words are what remain of Bush&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re either with us, or against us&amp;quot; brand of patriotism, but it has a choke hold on the U.S. I cannot understand why otherwise smart people continue to let &amp;quot;national security&amp;quot; dissuade all common sense in everything.&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;Investor-State Dispute Settlements&amp;quot; make me want to throw up my hands and move to Mars. I can&amp;#x27;t fathom how anyone can accept calling ISDS &amp;quot;national security&amp;quot; as anything but pure, black-tar hogwash.</text></comment>
<story><title>Arguments for TPP don’t make sense</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/30/arguments-for-tpp-don-make-sense/W8WNu5IR9xkhzsqYV0pBWK/story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised that the article doesn&amp;#x27;t spend more time pointing out the sheer arrogance of this, to non-US eyes.&lt;p&gt;Even the countries who would possibly be signing on to this must be insulted by it. That&amp;#x27;s not a good place to start.&lt;p&gt;Nobody else in the world cares about US interests, except insofar as it enriches them and&amp;#x2F;or prevents them from getting beat up and&amp;#x2F;or cornholed by friendly, drunk, sometimes generous, often abusive Uncle Sam.</text></comment>