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Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'

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posted on Dec, 18 2003 @ 12:38 PM
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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]



posted on Dec, 18 2003 @ 12:41 PM
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May the US rule for many decades to come!

Yeah!

Finally there will be peace and prosperity and justice in the world.



posted on Dec, 18 2003 @ 12:51 PM
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Sounds and reads like another 1.0 version of PNAC....



regards
seekerof



posted on Dec, 18 2003 @ 09:44 PM
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Originally posted by THENEO
May the US rule for many decades to come!

Yeah!

Finally there will be peace and prosperity and justice in the world.


Spoken like a true Canadian....



posted on Dec, 18 2003 @ 09:48 PM
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Voice,

not really, probably half of Canadians would love Chomsky. He is not as well known up here in general but most post secondary students have heard of him.

think I read a bit of his stuff years ago in poly sci. A smart person and passionate but a little narrow for me.



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