ENGLISH FOR THE WORLD

I am a strong believer in a one world government. The United States of America. I think the world would be a better place if it were run by the good old US of A. While it is likely that the radical left wing in the United States would be overjoyed to see a socialist one world government, they would howl with outrage at the mere thought that a one world government might be a representative republic based on the rule of law.
There is a way to strongly increase the influence of the United States in the world and that is to assure that the English language becomes the dominant language in the world. A universal language. A long time ago a universal language was developed called Esperanto. It was a language constructed to have consistent rules of grammar and consistent phonetic spelling. It is a very simple language to learn but it never really caught on.
While languages have come and gone in popularity as "international languages" English has become a defacto international language in some fields such as aviation, business and science. A few decades or a century or two from now than may not be the case. For example, French (!) Could come into ascendancy again. French for Gods sake!
There is a way to push English to the point of being a defacto, if not official, world language and thus providing those of us who are native English speakers an advantage in the world. The way to do this is to follow the lead of the Esperantists (yes they are still out there, try to convince anyone who will listen to learn to speak Esperanto).
First of all the language can be simplified to a basic vocabulary of no more than 1,000 words. Of course once a person learns to speak this new International English (IE) picking up a larger vocabulary will be easy.
Second, the rules of grammar need to be made consistent and reduced to a minimum number of rules. Why should any language have irregular verbs. In American English a verb such as "to be" conjugates as I am, you are, he is, we are, you all are, they are. In IE "to be" would conjugate as I be, you be, he be, we be, you all be, they be. I know it sounds bad but you know what? you know what it means when you hear it or read it. In American English we can use pronouns to good advantage to simplify all verbs, not just irregular verbs. An example would be the verb "to go". In American English the third person singular would be "he goes". In IE the verb would be "he go."
Third, spelling must be rationalized so that al words are spelled the way they sound and sound the way they are spelled. No more silent letters. No more unusual pronunciations.
Considering the big lead English already has towards becoming an international language, such a simplification would make it certain to become the official language of the world community and although it would not sound exactly the same, it would be no more difficult to communicate with a speaker of IE than it is to communicate with an Englishman.