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by C/O Diogene
Tuesday, Mar. 04, 2003 at 6:59 PM
"I, like many other supporters of the Constitution, have been asking since the 2000 election; exactly what drives the foreign policy of the Bush Administration. The answer is revealed in the doctrines of the Policy for the New American Century, (PNAC) "
Published: March 2, 2003 Author: Michael Gaddy For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use.
I, like many other supporters of the Constitution, have been asking since the 2000 election; exactly what drives the foreign policy of the Bush Administration. The answer is revealed in the doctrines of the Policy for the New American Century, (PNAC)
Neil Mackay, in the Scotland Sunday Herald, reveals the master plan now driving this administration.
"A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defense secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC)."
This plan in its entirety can be found here.
The plan put forth by PNAC reveals, regardless of whether Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq, an attack there was preordained. Maybe this can explain why they continue the war beat no matter how many times this administration is caught prevaricating about Iraq.
Inside the document prepared by PNAC is the following: "The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
The document also outlines a "blueprint for maintaining global US preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests. This American grand strategy must be advanced as far into the future as possible"
To facilitate their plans, our military cannot be constrained by the constitution. The plan calls our military, "the cavalry on the new American frontier." In other words, the "new American frontier is wherever our government says it is." If this is not a game plan of empire, I have never seen one.
The thoughts brought forth in this document should scare the beejeezus out of anyone who calls him or herself an American.
The PNAC plan:
Supports a "blueprint for maintaining global US preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests."
This "American grand strategy" must be advanced for "as far into the future as possible," the report says. It also calls for the US to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars" as a "core mission."
1. Refers to key allies such as the UK as "the most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership."
2. Describes peacekeeping missions as "demanding American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations."
3. Reveals worries in the administration that Europe could rival the USA.
4. Says "even should Saddam pass from the scene" bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain permanently -- despite domestic opposition in the Gulf regimes to the stationing of US troops -- as "Iran may well prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has."
5. Spotlights China for "regime change" saying "it is time to increase the presence of American forces in Southeast Asia". This, it says, may lead to "American and allied power providing the spur to the process of democratization in China"
6. Calls for the creation of "US Space Forces", to dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent "enemies" using the Internet against the US. (How long will it be before those of us who oppose this quest for empire, become the "enemy"?)
7. Hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons -- which the nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: "New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
8. Pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies the creation of a "worldwide command-and-control system."
Our European allies know of this plan. Perhaps that is why the administrations plan for "regime change" is meeting such opposition there.
Tam Dalyell, father of the House of Commons in the UK, and one of the leading British voices against war with Iraq, said: "This is garbage from right-wing think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks -- men who have never seen the horror of war but are in love with the idea of war. Men like Cheney, who were draft-dodgers in the Vietnam War. This is a blueprint for US world domination -- a new world order of their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans who want to control the world. I am appalled that a British Labour Prime Minister should have got into bed with a crew which has this moral standing."
Ironically, the policies of PNAC were first brought forth in Papa George's administration, but it was not well received and the would-be world controllers backed off for the time being. Scott McConnell of the American Conservative magazine says; "In the final year of the first Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz penned a memo under the aegis of then Secretary of Defense Cheney, calling for the United States to ramp up its defense spending in order to deter any other country from "even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." China, Russia, Germany, and Japan were to be intimidated from seeking more power in their own regions. After the Wolfowitz draft was leaked to the press, it received widespread ridicule, and the Bush I diplomats rushed to reassure allies that Wolfowitz's views did not truly reflect American foreign policy.
But during the 1990s these did become the views of the neoconservatives, packaged under the slogan "benevolent global hegemony" touted by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The positions of the neoconservative foreign policy team in exile were fleshed out in a PNAC book, Present Dangers, which called for the U.S. to "shape the international environment to its own advantage" by being "at once a European power, an Asian power, a Middle Eastern power, and of course a Western Hemisphere power" and to "act as if instability in important regions of the world … affect[s] us with almost the same immediacy as if [it] was occurring on our own doorstep." In practice this meant assertive risk-taking virtually everywhere. Jonathan Clarke, reviewing the volume in the National Interest, wrote, "If the book's recommendations were implemented all at once, the U.S. would risk unilaterally fighting a five-front war, while simultaneously urging Israel to abandon the peace process in favor of a new no-holds-barred confrontation with the Palestinians." This book has become the blueprint for the foreign policy of George W. Bush."
The most alarming part of this document is the proposals for our military. Those of us who believe that we maintain a military for defense are in for a real shock. When this plan is implemented there will have to be a name change in our government. We will no longer have a department of defense; it will have to be changed to the department of offense.
Does anyone really believe we can accomplish the outlined military goals with an "all volunteer" force? Or will we once again be required to subject our young people to a draft so they can be made indentured servants to a government so as to "fight for freedom?" Don't forget Secretary of Offense, Donald Rumsfeld, recently praised our "all volunteer' military as being one where everyone is there by choice, yet days later froze all lengths of service for the U.S. Marines and all forces in Korea until further notice.
This plan for world domination, written in 2000, called for raising our outlay on military spending to 3.8 percent of our GNP from the then level of 3.5. With the last increase in military spending by this administration, we reached the exact figure of 3.8!
The steps of this plan, which are being followed to the letter by George W. Bush, will lead to the end of what little is left of our Republic and a disaster for us as a nation on the world stage. History is resplendent with the tragedies of nations that sought empire and failed. We will be no different.
All allies will be repulsed at our desire to dominate the world. It is happening already. Our European allies have gone from those with headlines on 9/11 that proclaimed "We are all Americans now,' to disgust with our leaders, our foreign policy and its intended goal of world domination. Sure, we will be able to buy some allies, just as we have Turkey, but we must be aware we have only purchased the support of the government. The people of the world will never support a foreign power that seeks to make them all victims of its democratization and moral superiority.
When we subdue Iraq, will the oil resources be given to the citizens? I think not. A puppet government will be installed and the oil resources will be channeled to US interests, just as is being done in Afghanistan. Why else would a supposed "leader" of a country require 24/7 protection by US Special Forces soldiers from his own citizens?
We call what we seek to impose on the world, democracy. What majority of citizens in Afghanistan elected Hamid Karzai to be head of the country? Could it be coincidence Karzai was a former Unocal employee? Is it also coincidence the plan for the oil line across Afghanistan is now being implemented? Could the Taliban have become military opponents of the United States simply because they refused this same pipeline deal with Unocal after being wined and dined in Texas back when Dubya was governor in 1997?
What will it take for the majority of citizens in this country to realize we are becoming that which we fought so hard against 50+ years? By continuing to implement this policy set forth by Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Perle and Bush, do we not become the same as the Soviet Union whom we fought so hard to defeat, costing us tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars? One need only compare the proposed ideologies of our new neoconservative leaders with those of Leon Trotsky!
Another thing this plan for world domination will bring us here at home is terrorism too intense as to be imagined. When we have separated ourselves from the other people of this planet by our quest for domination, by what other means will they be able to retaliate? Does the thought of Rome being invaded by the Barbarians bring forth any visions? If they invade across our Southern Border, they will be assisted rather than opposed.
What will become of those here in this country who seek to remain loyal to the Constitution? Will we not become just as much an opposing force to those who seek world domination as those in other countries who do not wish to become American subjects?
How much more of our personal resources will be required to accomplish world domination? How much more of our freedoms?
Near the end of my career, I was afforded the opportunity of training with several of the Soviet Unions Special Forces troops. (Spesnatz) I had an occasion to trade an American "T" shirt with one of the Soviet soldiers for one from his personal collection. I recognized the word "Spesnatz" in written Russian, but was later told by one of the linguists in our unit what the remainder of words on the shirt translated to in English. The complete translation was as follows: Spesnatz, Vanguard Of World Domination! ------------------------------------------------------------------------
by Diogenes
Tuesday, Mar. 04, 2003 at 7:01 PM
This is a question you have to ask yourself. I am an optimist and would like to think we have not yet passed the point of no return.
The viewpoint of the author of the above article is compelling.
What do you think?
by Life and death
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 1:59 AM
-What will become of those here in this country who seek to remain loyal to the Constitution?- What an excellent question. And so timely. We can agitate and build collations for our preservation or we;ll see each other (baring blind folds) in small windowless rooms with loud music playing outside to cover interior noises from hell’s circus and crank driven field phones. Take a long look south. The result of freerange capitalism protected by the guns of the ranchers. Been there. You want low wage labor without health or retirement when you are finished with? No problem, union leaders disappear to ( sometimes) be found with unspeakable things having been done to them as a point of corporate creditability and of course the perpetrators are seldom found even more seldom punished. Same with educators who teach doctors that call judges that rule fairly. and anybody suspected of sympathize with same. Fear is also good. It keeps us from being push off the edge of the chasm..
by fresca
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 2:04 AM
"This is a question you have to ask yourself. I am an optimist and would like to think we have not yet passed the point of no return.
The viewpoint of the author of the above article is compelling.
What do you think? "
Well, it would be alot more compelling if there was even a shred of verification. Otherwise it just so many pixels. All this proves is that A. At least one other person in the world besides myself has an internet connection and B. that person either can, or knows someone who can type. Beyond that, it's a matter of faith. As far as whether the republic is dying. I would think not. Not by a long shot. But hey, what do I know?
by truth teller
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 3:55 AM
> All this proves is that A. At least one other person in the world besides myself has an internet connection
Well, it proves that you're incapable of using yours.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
The document includes contact info, including a phone number. Why not give them a call and get yourself an education?
by Jose
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 4:09 AM
The fascist state must die as well. The question is, how it will be ended and what will replace it.
There is no doubt that we have experienced a fascist coup. The current regime has no respect for the Constitution and the checks and balances are neither checking nor balancing. The only option is resistance. The movement should shift towards direct confrontation against the state. This need not be violent. Non cooperation worked well in Eastern Europe. Of course, non cooperation may be met with a violent response on the part of the state. How does one react to that?
We must stop war in Iraq, but, sadly, we will fail at that. The peace movement must be transformed into a broad anti-fascist movement.
by Scottie
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 4:10 AM
Seems the policy is basically what a Hegemon (the leading country) does. Anyway they belive that the US is a better hegemon than the other alternatives (actually the EU isnt much of an alternative). If you stop the US you have the problem of "what will the next hegemon do"?
> History is resplendent with the tragedies of nations that sought empire and failed. We will be no different.
Those who sought empire have generally done better than those that didnt.. particularly those who got trampled by the ones seeking empire. do you hear much of the gauls nowadays? what are the oldest countries in the world and is their history one of conquest? Unfortunatly for us foreign agression actually works. That is why we need to be careful about it.
by Sheepdog
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 4:19 AM
The main focus would be education to season the resistance into common bond and destination. The dismantling of the lies and fear. 9-11 What Really Happened ?
by Scottie
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 5:29 AM
Educating the powerless isnt going to get you very far. You see in principle you have to take the countries you "influence" away from militarism and retard their growth. this means that the ones that you dont control will become the strong countries economically and militarily.
At the moment most countries act to a large extent to maximise their own power influence economy and military. Since you dont want this to be major goals (possibly even the opposite) you are clearly choosing to reduce the significance in the world of the countries you control.
The universe is jsut biased against you.
You see this will not work unless you control them all. You have to control ALL of them
by Sheepdog
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 5:33 AM
by fresca
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 6:11 AM
"Well, it proves that you're incapable of using yours.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
The document includes contact info, including a phone number. Why not give them a call and get yourself an education?"
Maybe that shoulda been in the original post, don't ya think jackass?
by Wow
Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 6:18 AM
by Sheepdog
Thursday, Mar. 06, 2003 at 9:33 AM
We are on the brink here people. I've been cranky lately and my kids don't like it. Mostly it's because of them. Out of fear for them. Some more observations. The focus for ending this current war has fixated my brothers and sisters disregarding a dangerous and lurking fact that they are still in the crashers. Yeah I mean you. That said( forget about me dropping this, I wont ) I propose some tactics. Due to the lethal extent our bristling police military arm [PMA] will be employed against hard resistance (even soft resistance as any pepper sprayed or thwacked peace demonstrator will attest) resulting only in a corporate media show like WACO, with Dan Rather shedding tears for the PMA. Remember him? He was crying real(or applied) tears. For the BATF psychopaths they selected for that little Jones Town. Jonestown was mentioned. Read this: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/FIRESK20.TXT I think we should expect Bobbit meets O J Simpson 24/7 if any large ‘occurrence, incident or _________(fill in soft euphemism)’ occurs with another taste of state terror for however long it takes to numb the outrage with spin and distraction Resistance requires stamina as well as numbers and talents This window is closing for organizing and education before any one of several scenarios occur, Too vague? Let me continue if I may. MOST PROBABLE The WAR produces an ‘event’ Martial Law is declared and sets up house. Remember Greece or Chile or Iran? I was wondering how the people felt being herded into holding facilities waiting to die or go into oblivion? That was only the most likely there are others but I will spare you knowing that thinking has priority over reading. Impeach the little bastard and put them on the stand with a Nuremberg seething furious public. We need to expose these bastards to each other. Talk about it everywhere you can to any one (they are your brother or sister so it really isn’t that rude if done as a brother or sister) who you can find the time to. The ripping down of the vails and fear .Lives on the line here folk. Guess who?
9-11 What really happened?
by WOW
Thursday, Mar. 06, 2003 at 11:15 PM
WOW You have kids? not right WOW
by Sheepdog
Thursday, Mar. 06, 2003 at 11:31 PM
Looking for vermin, hungry and mean. I'm so proud.
by Scott To the extreme
Thursday, Mar. 06, 2003 at 11:43 PM
I never knew there was proof to all my senseless ramblings. I thought that it was purely philosophical.
Oh well, the U.S. will still fall. I don't care what will replace it. Maybe, Japan?
by Sheepdog
Thursday, Mar. 06, 2003 at 11:47 PM
Death of the american dream. Amid the broken stone of our hopes we pick remembering when we drove to work to oil the machine that ran amok. we worked, played and then we waited. until it turned on us.
by thunk
Friday, Mar. 07, 2003 at 4:52 PM
Egypt fell. Assyria fell. Babylon fell. Medo-Persians fell. Greece Fell. Rome fell. And so on and so forth. To say the USA will eventually fall doesn't take a lot of thought. No evidence it's gonna happen anytime in the next few hundred years though.
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