fuzzy thoughts

i was reading some articles from an extremely boring eu think tank and thought that maybe this region should be more forward thinking in their own foreign policy and start to come up with a doctrine for an asean army or something. will give george yeo's rhetoric of asean's 'moral authority' more credibility. that way maybe we can really chip in for peacekeeping duties in burma, east timor, southern thailand, and other hot spot borders in this region, rather than to stand by, do nothing, and talk only. oh well, i wrote a paper long ago on eu's defence policy and now looking back at the paper, i thought it sounds like such a year 1 textbook-type of answer without any consideration for the imperfect world that we live in, and how political leaders are always playing smoke screen and mirrors in front of their own audience anyway... yucks. singapore will probably rather opt out of asean than to share defence doctrines and resources with m'sia or indon. so anyway, maybe it will be another 100 more years before leaders in this region can think beyond their economic interests and pool their legal and moral resources together for some sort of sustaining humanitarian foreign policies.

ok, i better start marking essays now. after a short break of about 4 days, next 3 weeks will be intense before i can take a short break for my only exam on 3 dec.