Excerpt from Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Chomsky.
That title sure sounds juicy doesn' it???
"September 2002 was marked by three events of considerable importance, closely related. The most powerful state in history announced a new National
Security Strategy asserting that it will maintain global hegemony permanently. Any challenge will be blocked by force, the dimension in which the US
reigns supreme. At the same time, the war drums began to beat to mobilize the population for an invasion of Iraq. And the campaign opened for the
mid-term congressional elections, which would determine whether the administration would be able to carry forward its radical international and
domestic agenda.
The new �imperial grand strategy,� as it was termed at once in the leading establishment journal, presents the US as �a revisionist state seeking to
parlay its momentary advantages into a world order in which it runs the show,� a �unipolar world� in which �no state or coalition could ever
challenge� it as �global leader, protector, and enforcer.[1] These policies are fraught with danger even for the US itself, the author warned, joining
many others in the foreign policy elite
What is to be �protected� is US power and the interests it represents, not the world, which vigorously opposed the conception. Within a few months,
studies revealed that fear of the United States had reached remarkable heights, along with distrust of the political leadership. An international
Gallup poll in December, barely noted in the US, found virtually no support for Washington�s announced plans for a war in Iraq carried out
�unilaterally by America and its allies�: in effect, the US-UK �coalition....."
www.zmag.org...
He makes an interesting point that America's war in Iraq may be more of a "last-grasp" attempt to implement its policies than a "first strike"
for new global dominance. Perhaps what we are witnessing is the first death throw of a crumbling empire.
A somewhat reassuring thought in these times of confusion.
There is no enemy anywhere - Lao Tse
[Edited on 18-12-2003 by Voice_of Doom]