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War and the "New World Order"
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Research
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/290807_b_nwo.htm
“We are now at the year 1908, which was the year that the Carnegie
Foundation began operations. And, in that year, the trustees meeting, for
the first time, raised a specific question, which they discussed
throughout the balance of the year, in a very learned fashion. And the
question is this: Is there any means known more effective than war,
assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people? And they conclude
that, no more effective means to that end is known to humanity, than war.
So then, in 1909, they raise the second question, and discuss it, namely,
how do we involve the United States in a war?”
-Norman Dobbs, U.S. Congressional Special Committee for the Investigate of
Tax-Exempt Foundations (1982)
War is the ultimate means of attempting to change societies and reshape
nations. It is through war that national economies and political
structures can be forcibly restructured. War is, potentially, the ultimate
economic shock therapy. The wars in the Middle East are stepping stones
towards establishing a vision of global order that has been in the hearts
and minds of the Anglo-American establishment for years. That vision is
global ascendancy.
Towards the “New International Order” through the “Global War on Terror”
“There is a chance for the President of the United States [George W. Bush
Jr.] to use this disaster [meaning the attacks of September 11, 2001] to
carry out what his father…a phrase his father [George H. Bush Sr.] used I
think only once, and it hasn’t been used since … and that is a new world
order. Think about this. We already have the support of NATO in a
remarkable historic departure.”
-Gary Hart, National Security in the 21st Century: Findings of the Hart-Rudman
Commission (September 14, 2007)
On January 18, 2005 Henry Kissinger appeared on Charlie Rose, a television
program on PBS, and talked about a “New International Order” being created
by George W. Bush Jr. and his administration. [1] Henry Kissinger stated
that within the next few years that humanity will see the emergence of the
beginning of a “New International Order.” Kissinger also stated that the
Bush Jr. Administration could bring about this state; “and it could well
be this president, [meaning President Bush Jr.] that is so reviled by
intellectuals, will emerge as one of the seminal presidents of …of this…of
this period…of American modern history.” [2]
When asked what George W. Bush Jr. has to do to bring about this “New
International Order” by his interviewer Kissinger paused and gave a vague
answer that avoided mentioning the criminality of war. “He has to do some
certain things and he has to have some luck,” Kissinger answered followed
by “Luck is the residue of design.” [3] It should be noted that if luck is
a residue of design then it is no longer chance, but a calculation of
intent.
Briefly the role of the American public was talked about by Charlie Rose
with Kissinger who paused to pick his words carefully. Kissinger told his
interviewer, Rose, that the United States is a nation whose public has no
clue about American foreign policy. [4] In regards to the American public,
the war agenda cannot move forward if the U.S. maintains its
multi-cultural characteristics. It was this multi-cultural characteristic
that initially presented the U.S. a problem in declaring war on Germany in
both World Wars until the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbour. [5]
Thus, an end to a liberal North American immigration regime that ensures a
multi-cultural environment in North America is a prerequisite to expanded
American war(s). Zbigniew Brzezinski has written that “as America becomes
an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to
fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues [amongst the American
people], except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely
perceived direct external threat.” [6] The E.U. is also beginning to
follow suit. This premise by Brzezinski, an individual from within the
ruling establishment of America, can be used to explain the demonization
of Muslims and several national and ethno-cultural groups such as Arabs,
Turks, and Iranians.
It is also worth noting that Gary Hart, a former U.S. senator from
Colorado, implied on September 14 of 2001 that the “Global War on Terror”
sponsored by the Bush Jr. Administration was a pretext for establishing
the so-called “New World Order.” [7] Gary Hart also implicated NATO’s role
in shaping this “New World Order.” [8] The project is to be implemented by
military might.
A Unipolar World: Pax Americana?
“However, what is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this term,
at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation, namely one
centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of decision-making.”
-Vladimir Putin at the Munich Conference on Security Policy in Germany
(February 11, 2007)
During his interview, with Charlie Rose, Henry Kissinger had referred to
what George H. Bush Sr. identified as the “New World Order.” This was a
term frequently used by the former American president that became famous
during the Gulf War. With the end of the Cold War and the defeat of Iraq
in the Gulf War, Georgia H. Bush Sr. said that humanity in 1991 was
witness to the emergence of a “New World Order” that would be led by
America. [9] The Gulf War was merely the beginning of this “New World
Order.” The seeds had been planted in the Middle East for future wars and
Eurasian expansion.
The Trilateral Commission, an organization founded in 1973 and consisting
of the wealthiest and most powerful elites from the U.S., the E.U., and
Japan, originally created the term that George H. Bush Sr. drew on. Their
word was “New International Economic Order.” The Trilateral Commission’s
terminology lays bare the economic fabric of this program. Military might
is merely the enforcer of foreign policy, and foreign policy is based on
economic interests.
An agenda of perpetual warfare and violence has been fueling the march
towards global domination through economic means. In essence this war
agenda has been an unbroken process watched over by the different
presidential administrations of the United States.
Stepping forth from behind the Curtains: NATO’s Role in the Eurasian
Roadmap
“The policies of the U.S., since the end of the Cold War are complicated
and vast. They involve an intent to dominate and the use of international
organizations to advance U.S. economic and geopolitical interests. They
also include the conversion of NATO into a surrogate military police force
for globalization and U.S. world economic domination.”
-Ramsey Clark, 66th United States Attorney-General (October 6, 2000)
NATO has started replicating long-term American war tactics and strategy.
NATO is creating a rapid response force, which involves a significant
German role. The force is modeled on the U.S. Rapid Response Force, the
forerunner of CENTCOM, and has a global reach. The transformation of the
U.S. Rapid Deployment Force into CENTCOM was part of long-term
Anglo-American war plans. The NATO force is projected to be able to deploy
to any region in the world within five days and planned to be capable of
self-sufficient, detached operations for approximately one month. The
force will also have land, sea, and air components, including an aircraft
carrier. [10]
It is apparent that control over Iraq was planned during the culmination
of the Cold War by Anglo-American policy makers. The series of wars that
have occurred since the Iraq-Iran War are debatably the products of a
historical Anglo-American project in the Middle East— a project that was
once a solely British project that predated the Cold War. The project to
reshape and control the Middle East is part of the greater project to
control Eurasia. Just as how this grand project was embraced by the U.S.,
as the inheritor of British strategy, the project has been embraced by the
Franco-German entente and NATO. Zbigniew Brzezinski argued in 1997 that
“Europe is America’s essential geopolitical bridgehead in Eurasia,” or an
entry point towards dominating Eurasia. [11]
From the statements and goals of U.S. officials going back to the 1990s
NATO was projected to expand across the Eurasian landmass and set to
embrace Japan, South Korea, and Australia in what Zbigniew Brzezinski
identifies as the “trans-Eurasian security system.” [12] The
characteristics of prospective conflicts seem to be slated to become
dominated by NATO as France and Germany expand their roles in the “long
war.” NATO’s role in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Indian
Ocean, Lebanon, and Afghanistan, along with NATO’s thrust into the
post-Soviet niche and inner Eurasia, are all precarious indications of
this.
Making Europe the Partner of America in the “Long War:” Enter the
Franco-German Entente
“The victory over Iraq [in the Gulf War] was not waged as ‘a war to end
all wars.’ Even the ‘New World Order’ cannot guarantee an era of perpetual
peace.”
-George H. Bush Sr., 41st President of the United States (March 6, 1991)
Brzezinski explained that although Japan was important to American
geo-strategy, Europe as a geopolitical entity (via the E.U. and NATO)
constitutes America’s bridgehead into Eurasia. [13] “Unlike America’s
links with Japan, NATO entrenches American political influence and
military power on the Eurasian mainland,” and that “the allied European
nations [were] still highly dependent on U.S. protection, any expansion of
Europe’s political scope is automatically an expansion of U.S. influence,”
Brzezinski explained in regards to Europe and Japan. [14] Brzezinski was
paying more than just lip service to America’s allies in continental
Europe; he was stressing that they were crucial, albeit as subordinates,
to American global interests.
The strength of NATO would rest on the vitality of the European Union, an
Anglo-American and Franco-German device. To emphasis this Brzezinski wrote
that “the United States’ ability to project influence and power in Eurasia
relies on close transatlantic ties.” [15] Brzezinski also added that
France and Germany, the Franco-German entente, would be America’s vital
partners in NATO expansion and securing Eurasia, but a united Europe was
an essential prerequisite. In regards to the Franco-German entente,
Brzezinski wrote in 1998 that “In the western periphery of Eurasia, the
key players will continue to be France and Germany, and America’s central
goal should be to continue to expand the democratic European bridgehead.”
[16] This was essentially the forecast of the “E.U. expansion” that has
gone hand-in-hand with earlier NATO expansion since the end of the Cold
War. According to Brzezinski it would be up to the Franco-German entente
to led Europe: “America cannot create a more united Europe on its own —
that is a task for the Europeans, especially the French and the Germans.”
[17]
None of the Pentagon’s geo-strategic plans can go forward without the E.U.
and NATO. For this to happen it is essential that a strategic consensus
between the Anglo-American alliance and the Franco-German entente be
forged. The Anglo-American alliance has pursued this track and deeper
integration with the Franco-German side, while also taking an adversarial
stance against the Franco-German entente. Iraq is a symbolic testimony to
this rivalry while Lebanon and NATO expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean
is a parallel testimony to the strategic cooperation between the
Anglo-American alliance and the Franco-German entente. A contradictory and
confusing message is sent from these tracks, but there is always more to
the picture. However, it is clear that Franco-German and Anglo-American
interests must be synchronized for America to expand its global control.
The Endgame: A “Single Market” under One World Administration?
“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as
a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I
served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.
And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class
muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer...”
-Major-General Smedley D. Butler, U.S. Marine Corp Commander (War Is a
Racket, 1935)
After the Second World War, it was believed that from the nucleolus of
Britain and American that a “New World Order” would be formed. Britain and
America even had a combined military staff and combined chiefs of military
staff. Visions for a singular global polity have vividly been tied to the
Anglo-American establishment. In 1966, Professor Carroll Quigley, a noted
American economist, wrote in his book Hope and Tragedy: A History of the
World in Our Time that economics and finance vis-à-vis banking
conglomerates were the engine in this drive and the real forces
controlling national policies. Carroll Quigley wrote in regards to the
Anglo-American alliance that “I have objected, both in the past and
recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was
an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even
federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe),
but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain
unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be
known.” [18]
“For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia,” insists Zbigniew
Brzezinski. He also contends, “Now a non-Eurasian power [i.e., the U.S.]
is preeminent in Eurasia— and America’s global primacy is directly
dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the
Eurasian continent is sustained.” [19] The former U.S. national security
advisor has also stated, in 1997, that in order to co-opt the
Franco-German entente a “Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement, already
advocated by a number of prominent Atlantic leaders, could also mitigate
the risk of growing economic rivalry between a more united E.U. and the
United States.” [20]
There is opposition in North America to what is believed to be the
emergence of a projected “North American Union.” This North American
entity would further amalgamate Canada, the United States, and Mexico, but
the mechanisms for a grander global confederacy have already been drawn.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the creation of the
E.U. were stepping stones towards this aspiration. Economics is the key
that fuses these polities.
A summit between the E.U. and U.S. has shed light on plans for economic
amalgamation. [21] The term used at the summit was “single market” by
“renewing the Trans-Atlantic partnership.” [22] This is the same term used
to describe the “common market” as it intensified Western European
integration, which eventually gave birth to the European Union. At the
summit President Bush Jr. met with Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of
the European Commission, and Federal Chancellor Merkel. Frau Merkel, while
officially there on behalf of the E.U., represented the interests of the
Franco-German entente while President Bush Jr. represented Anglo-American
interests. Jose Manuel Barroso as the President of the European Commission
represented both Anglo-American and Franco-German interests because the
E.U. is a joint Anglo-American and Franco-German body. America is a de
facto E.U. power due to its alliance with Britain, one of the three major
E.U. powers along with France and Germany.
An agreement was reached between the E.U. and U.S. to integrate the
markets and regulations of America and Europe even further. This agreement
was another layer to add to the strategic consensus that was reached at
NATO’s Riga Summit. Both sides also stated that economics is the driving
spirit in their relationship and that politics mattered very little. The
liberal and conservative leaders of America and Europe are merely two
sides of the same coin.
Decades after the end of the Cold War the globe is wrapped within a state
of almost perpetual war dominated by the military might of America. The
last lines in The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and the Geostrategic
Imperatives reveal the ultimate objective of Anglo-American policy: “These
efforts will have the added historical advantage of benefiting from the
new web of global linkages that is growing exponentially outside the more
traditional nation-state system. That web— woven by multinational
corporations, NGOs (…) already creates an informal global system that is
inherently congenial to more institutionalized and inclusive global
cooperation [a reference to global government].” [23]
Brzezinski goes on to predict that “In the course of the next several
decades, a functioning structure of global cooperation, based on
geopolitical realities, could thus emerge and gradually assume the mantle
of the world’s current ‘regent’ [a reference to the U.S.],” and
“Geostrategic success in that cause would represent a fitting legacy of
America’s role as the first, only, and last truly global superpower.” [24]
All around the globe nation-states are being absorbed into larger and
larger political and socio-economic entities. This is part of the story of
globalization, but it has its dark side. This is the globalization of the
few and not of the many.
The Fight for Civilization and the Gathering Storm
“When all is said and done the conflict in Afghanistan will be to the war
on terrorism what the North African campaign was to World War II: an
essential beginning on the path to victory. But compared to what looms
over the horizon— a wide-ranging war in locales from Central Asia to the
Middle East and, unfortunately, back again to the United States—
Afghanistan will prove but an opening battle.”
-Robert Kagan and William Kristol, The Gathering Storm (The Weekly
Standard, October 29, 2001)
One cannot help but remember what was elucidated in 2001 during the start
of the “Global War on Terror” by two members of the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC), stating that Afghanistan was only part of a
“wide-ranging war.” [25] Both Robert Kagan and William Kristol are deeply
linked to U.S. foreign and military policy extending from writing
presidential speeches to having a former spouse as the U.S. ambassador to
NATO. It is not coincidental that a portion of their editorial from
October of 2001 in The Weekly Standard has actually materialized. These
men should be taken for their words when they say that Afghanistan is
merely the “opening battle” compared to what is waiting in the horizon.
Referring back to Robert Kagan and William Kristol: “this war will not end
in Afghanistan. It is going to spread and engulf a number of countries in
conflicts of varying intensity. It could well require the use of American
military power in multiple places simultaneously. It is going to resemble
the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. And it is
going to put enormous and perhaps unbearable strain on parts of an
international coalition that basks in contented consensus.” [26] The
“international coalition” being referred to is NATO and the international
military network based around the U.S. and the “unbearable strain” is war,
but of an unknown scale. On August 10, 2007 Lieutenant-General Douglas
Lute, the “War Czar” overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and any
expanded theatre, publicly talked about restoring a mandatory military
draft. [27] The march to war is not waning, but driving the world towards
the abyss.
Afghanistan was the first volley in an advance phase of the global
conflict that was in its preparatory stages decades ago during the
Iraq-Iran War, the Gulf War, and the Kosovo War. Where this global
conflict, this “long war” will lead us is unknown, but all humanity is in
this together. The American people will sooner or later feel the pain of
war as their freedom is effected. Autocracy is a prerequisite to grand
empires. Brzezinski has pointed out that “America is too democratic at
home to be autocratic abroad,” and “never before has a populist democracy
attained international supremacy.” [28] Deviancy is being normalized all
over the globe because of this global project. Those that are behind such
projects must be reduced to social leprids, as outcasts, denounced by all
societies.
Resistance in the Middle East: The Power of the People
“The Iraqi Resistance is by definition democratic as it is the spontaneous
expression of a people who took its destiny into its hands, and is by
definition progressive as it defends the interests of the people.”
-Hana Al-Bayaty (March 18, 2007)
Anglo-American planners have underestimated the capacity of the power of
ordinary people and the human spirit. In the Middle East it has been the
resistance of ordinary people that has brought militant globalization to a
standstill. Popular resistance movements have bogged down the military
might of the remaining global superpower.
A nation is only as legitimate as the people(s) who live in it define it.
America is not at war with individual nations, but with the people(s) of
these nations. Nor are the American people at war with these nations, it
is the American ruling establishment and elites that are at war with these
people(s).
The forces of resistance are the forces of the will of the people, without
the support of the people none of them could last or stand up to some of
the most powerful war machines in human history.
The wars in the Middle East are as much about choice as they are about the
right to live. What is at stake is self-determination and liberty. These
wars represent the drive to impose an overall monopoly of controls over
other nations by a few who have hijacked the foreign policies of America
and Britain to serve their own goals.
The Iraqi Resistance and the other resistance movements of the Middle East
are movements of the peoples and by nature egalitarian. Would anyone in
the so-called West dare label the French, Czechoslovakian, Greek, Libyan,
Chinese, Malaysian, and Soviet resistance movements against Germany,
Italy, and Japan during the Second World War as terrorist movements?
However, the occupying Axis governments labeled these movements as
terrorists. Did not France and the other areas occupied by Germany and the
Axis Powers not have governments that said the Axis Powers were welcomed
forces bringing stability as do the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan?
For example in France there was the Vichy Government. When Germany was
defeated the leaders of the Vichy Government in France were executed as
traitors.
The U.S. government misleadingly claims that it is bringing democracy to
these lands, but since when was democracy forced from the top down to the
bottom? Is this not the opposite of democracy; things being forced down
from the top to the bottom? Democracy is an expression of the masses that
manifests itself upwards and not from the opposite direction.
No force on earth can defeat the popular will of the people; this is why
domestic populations are manipulated into supporting wars. It is only
division that allows small groups to take temporary reign over the
people(s). However, for every scheme and plan to create division and
anarchy amongst the people(s) of the world there is a plan to unite them
and strengthen them. This is one of the greatest fears of many in
positions of power. This is the fear of any awakening of large societal
groups and populations.
There is no greater ally to the movements of resistance in the Middle East
and beyond than unadulterated public opinion in the rest of the world. The
people(s) of Britain, Israel, and the U.S. are also victims of their own
governments who manipulate their fears and create animosity between them
and other nations. This in itself is a great crime. What differences exist
between nations are only a means to test the best of them.
Fear and hate are the weapons of the real terrorists, the masters of
deception, and those who belittle others for profit and personal gain.
These are the terrorists who give orders in positions of political
leadership in the White House and elsewhere at the expense of their own
people and the rest of humanity. The world is now embarking into the abyss
of perpetual war and a period in which the contemplation of the use of
nuclear weapons is being made. A stand must be made by individuals of good
conscience and will. It seems possible that it will be a matter of time
before the citizens of Europe, North America, and other lands will be
compelled or necessitated to join the peoples of occupied lands in
resistance.
War must be averted on two fronts; in the shorter-term (as differentiated
from “short-term”) or near future, war must be averted from emerging in
the Middle East, and in the longer-term in Eurasia. Only the resistance of
the people and public opinion can stop war from enveloping the globe.
Public opinion must translate into public action if humanity it to be
spared from a massive war—a war that could prove to become a nuclear
armageddon.
Countdown to 1984?
“In brief, the U.S policy goal must be unapologetically twofold: to
perpetuate America’s own dominant position for at least a generation and
preferably longer still; and to create a geopolitical framework that can
absorb the inevitable shocks and strains of social-political change...”
-Zbigniew Brzezinski (The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its
Geostrategic Imperatives, 1997)
In a twist of Orwellian fate, the earth seems closer to appearing like a
rendition of the world in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. [29]
However, the road ahead is not scripted. The future is only anticipated
and planned, but never certain in a universe of infinite probabilities.
Time will tell where the road ahead will guide us. Those that see
themselves as masters of destiny have had their ideas proven wrong in
Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia, and Lebanon. It may look as if
opposition to a war agenda is like tiny raindrops beating against an
unrelenting mountain, but mountains can be eventually eroded by those tiny
raindrops. There exists a “sensitive dependence on initial conditions,”
commonly called the “butterfly effect,” whereas the flaps of a butterfly’s
wings in Brazil may set off a tornado in Texas. Individual actions can
offset the march to war that is unfolding on this planet.
NOTES
[1] Henry Kissinger, A conversation with Henry Kissinger, interview with
Charles P. Rose Jr., Charlie Rose (show), January 18, 2005.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] The U.S. government was secretly arming Britain during the First World
War and profiting off the war. In regards to the sinking of the RMS
Lusitania, a British passenger ship, unknown to the public at the time the
ship was also carrying military supplies from the U.S. to Britain.
In the case of Pearl Harbour, the U.S. government was aware of a Japanese
plan to attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii. American officials
allowed the attack to take place to arouse public support for the entry of
the U.S. in the Second World War. It should be noted that prior to the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the U.S. government had led a complete
embargo of oil and materials to Japan and frozen all Japanese assets by
July 25, 1941. Oil is needed to run economies and war and all strategists
and military planners know this very well. Japan was baited into an
inevitable war with the U.S. and decided to take the first shot. This
benefited the U.S. government in mobilizing the American public to support
the war effort in the Second World War just as the tragic events of
September 11th, 2001 allowed the Bush Jr. Administration to launch the
“Global War on Terror.” U.S. involvement in the Second World War was for
economic purposes and had nothing to do with morality.
In the case of the RMS Lusitania the German embassy in Washington D.C. was
trying to make clear to the Americans before it started sinking merchant
ships helping Britain that it would engage in such activities. It should
be noted that Britain was doing the same in both World Wars. U.S.
officials are actually believed to have obstructed these attempts by the
Germans in an attempt to involve the U.S. in the First World War.
[6] Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and the
Geostrategic Imperatives (NYC, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997),
p.211.
[7] Gary Hart, Transcript. National Security in the 21st Century: Findings
of the Hart-Rudman Commission, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),
September 14, 2001.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/4049/national_security_in_the_21st_century.html
[8] Ibid.
[9] George Herbert Walker Bush Sr., Gulf War Victory Speech, (Address,
Capitol Hill, Washington, District of Columbia, January 6, 1991) March 6,
1991.
[10] Bettina Berg, High readiness and global deployability, Federal
Ministry of Defence (Germany), November 30, 2006.
[11] Zbigniew Brzezinski, A geostrategy for Eurasia, Foreign Affairs, vol.
76, no. 5 (September- October, 1997): p.50-64.
Note: The writings from Brzezinski’s paper for Foreign Affairs and the
Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) were also used for his book The Grand
Chessboard: American Primacy and the Geostrategic Imperatives that had its
first edition published in 1997. Brzezinski’s 1997 Foreign Affairs journal
entry is a condensed synopsis of his 1997 book. Points and quotes cited
from it are identical or almost identical to the writing from his 1997
book.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
(NYC, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966), p.950.
[14] Brzezinski, A geostrategy for Eurasia, Op. cit.
[15] Ibid.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Ibid.
[19] Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, Op. cit., p.30.
[20] Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, Op. cit., p.200.
[21] Desmond Butler, E.U., U.S. Agree on Iran, Russia Disputes, Associated
Press, April 30, 2007.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6597779,00.html
[22] US and EU agree ‘single market,’ British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC), April 30, 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6607757.stm
[23] Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, Op. cit., p.215.
[24] Ibid.
[25] Robert Kagan and William Kristol, The Gathering Storm, The Weekly
Standard, October 29, 2002, p.13.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Editorial-102901.pdf
[26] Ibid.
[27] Toby Harnden, ‘Return to conscription should be considered,’ The
Telegraph (U.K.), August 11, 2007.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/11/wdraft111.xml
[28] Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, Op. cit., p.35-36.
[29] Refer to the polity and geographic boundaries of
Winston Smith’s fictional world, in Orwell’s novel. In the fictional state
of Oceania (which includes America, the British Isles, and Australia)
there is absolute control exercised over all aspects of the lives of all
citizens by one single entity, the Party, which has three political
mottos: WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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