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Global realignment: How Bush inspired a new world order
Ramzy Baroud
Online Journal
Tuesday, Sept 9, 2008
The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US’s world standing much sooner than most analysts predict.
What was difficult to foresee was that the weakening of US global dominance, spurred by erratic and unwise foreign policy under Bush, would reignite the Cold War, to a degree, over a largely distant and seemingly ethnically-based conflict — that of Georgia and Russia. Who could have predicted a possible association between Baghdad, Kabul and Tbilisi?
But to date, the decline of US global power to the advent of the Bush administration, or even the horrific events of 11 September 2001, is not exactly accurate. The rapid collapse of the Soviet Union and the unravelling of the Warsaw Pact — especially as former members of that pact hurried to joined NATO in later years — empowered a new breed of US elite who boasted of the economic viability and moral supremacy of US-styled “Capitalism and Democracy.” But a unipolar world presented the US leadership with an immense, if not an insurmountable task.
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While 9/11 and a gung-ho president presented a convenient opportunity to reassert US global dominance, action was taken the moment the Soviet Union collapsed. Such efforts, however, were not accentuated until 1997, with the establishment of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think tank from which many neoconservative policy advisors operated. Their aim was “to promote American global leadership . . . [which] is both good for America and good for the world.” William Kristol and Robert Kagan, PNAC founders, were inspired by the Reaganite policy of “strength and moral clarity.” But that supposedly inspiring model was justified on the basis of the Cold War, which no longer existed. Fashioning an enemy was a time-sensitive and essential task to justify the repositioning of US power to reclaim domains that were left vacant with the disappearance of the bipolar international system, which existed since World War II.
Even the PNAC’s more recent report, Rebuilding America’s Defences: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century, published in 2000, appeared of little relevance and urgency. It expressed the “belief that America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership by maintaining the pre-eminence of US military forces.” The report would have been another neglected document were it not for the “terrorist” attacks of 9/11, which turned it into a doctrine defining US foreign policies for nearly a decade.
The wars and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq were aimed at strengthening the US hand in protecting its interests and managing its international affairs. Afghanistan’s position was strategic in warding off the growth of the rising powers of Asia — aside from its military and strategic value, it was hoped to become a major energy supply route — while Iraq was to provide a permanent US military presence to guard its oil interests in the whole region and to ensure Israeli supremacy over its weaker, but rebellious Arab foes.
The plan worked well for a few weeks following the declaration of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. Since then, the US has learned that managing world affairs with a decidedly military approach is a recipe for disaster. Faced with foreign occupation, Iraqis fought back, creating a nightmare scenario and promising US defeat in their country. The US’s original plan to exploit the country’s fractious ethnic and religious groupings also backfired, as shifting alliances made it impossible for the US to single out a permanent enemy or a long-term ally. In Afghanistan, the picture is even more bleak as the country’s unforgivable geography, the corruption of US local allies, resurgence of the Taliban, and the US-led coalition’s brutal response to the Taliban’s emboldened ascension, has rendered Afghanistan a lost cause by any reasonable military standard.
But the trigger-happy mentality that has governed US foreign policy during the Bush years is no longer dominant and has been since challenged by a more sensible, dialogue-based foreign policy approach, as championed, reluctantly, by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. The change of heart is not entirely moralistic, however, but largely pragmatic. According to a survey conducted jointly by Foreign Policy magazine and the Centre for a New American Security, published 19 February 2008, 88 percent of present and former US military officers believe that the demands of the Iraq war alone have “stretched the US military dangerously thin.” Although not “broken,” 80 percent believe it is “unreasonable to expect the US military to wage another major war successfully at present,” as reported by CNN. Such estimation is not too different from similar assessments provided by top US military commanders, most of who found their way to early retirement for similar reasons.
The new military limitations faced by the US in the Middle East have also resulted in the weakening of US political sway and standing. More, its regional allies have also suffered one blow after another: Israel in Lebanon, Georgia in South Ossetia, US allies in Venezuela and other South American countries, etc. Indeed, it is a matter of time before a challenger to US global hegemony arises and tests US resolve under new circumstances. While growing US involvement in Eurasia and its missile defence shield was considered part and parcel of the neocon plan for “rebuilding America’s defences,” it was considered by Russia a threat to its national security.
The Georgian invasion of South Ossetia represented a golden opportunity for Moscow to send an unmistakable message to Washington. By crushing the US-Israeli trained Georgian army, Russia declared itself a contender to unchallenged US global dominance, which had lasted for nearly two decades. Countries such as Iran and Syria are quickly warming up to the new Russia, as the latter seeks to rebuild its own alliances and defences.
The nature and the direction of the US-Russian confrontation are yet to be determined with any reasonable preciseness. Internal and external factors for Russia itself (corruption, the oligarchs, and its ability to court a stable alliance) will all prove consequential in the current confrontation. What is clear, however, is that the upcoming US president will find himself face-to-face with a drastically altered world order, one that is defined by military pandemonium, national and global economic decline, and the rise of new powers, all vying to fill a widening, chaotic power vacuum, provided courtesy of the Bush administration.
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September 9th, 2008 at 7:53 am
That was his purpose, thats exactly what bush wanted to achieve! Daddy bush wanted the same thing NEW WORLD ORDER!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Many think of Bush & Co as failures but within their New World Order objectives they’ve successively executed most of their plans on schedule. Within the new world paradigm they’ve been enormously successful at achieving their goals to dismantle America. They couldn’t do it alone, I’d say most of Dems are in on it with the GOP because they see the writing on the wall. Anyone who stands up to them in politics is considered a nutjob because they’ve laid out the foundation of their plans over many years and that’s the new reality we all have to deal with now.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:17 am
In modern history, the Lubavitchers seem to be in control.
The Jewish Chabad Lubavitcher sect wants to hasten Armageddon to facilitate the intervention of the Messiah. A Lubavitcher rabbi says:”the world is waiting for us to fulfill our role in preparing the world to greet Moshiach” (i.e. Messiah.)Their members include Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq War which began with an attack named after a Cabalist diety, “Shekinah” (”Shock and Awe”). Especially worrisome now is Chabadnik Joe Lieberman who visited
Israel in March with his buddy John McCain. There is concern over Sen. Carl Levin who is Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Other prominent Orthodox Jews who might be part of this cult include Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff and former Pentagon Controller Dov Zakheim, implicated in the disappearance of “trillions” of dollars. While the Chabad Lubavitchers are the focus, also
involved are Christian Evangelists like Jack Van Impe and Timothy LaHaye who are close to the Bush administration. Their desired scenario includes the destruction of the al-Aqsa mosque, the restoration of the Third Temple on its site; the rising to heaven of the 144,000 Chosen Ones; the battle of Armageddon; mass death among Israeli Jews and the Final Coming of Jesus Christ.
“Every part of modern history is linked to another and in itself to Zionism, state intelligence, lodges and alike. Without the Balfour declaration, there would have been no democratic revolution in Russia and no America into World War One … We may start at any historical point (even with the American revolution or more far back Oliver Cromwell) [and] we´ll see, that the maker (or profiteer) of all this is Cabalistic Judaism. All serves their plan, to implement biblical prophecy.” Lets-watch.com
September 9th, 2008 at 11:20 am
The Jewish Chabad Lubavitcher sect wants to hasten Armageddon to facilitate the intervention of the Messiah. A Lubavitcher rabbi says:”the world is waiting for us to fulfill our role in preparing the world to greet Moshiach” (i.e. Messiah.)Their members include Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq War which began with an attack named after a Cabalist diety, “Shekinah” (”Shock and Awe”). Especially worrisome now is Chabadnik Joe Lieberman who visited
Israel in March with his buddy John McCain. There is concern over Sen. Carl Levin who is Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Other prominent Orthodox Jews who might be part of this cult include Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff and former Pentagon Controller Dov Zakheim, implicated in the disappearance of “trillions” of dollars. While the Chabad Lubavitchers are the focus, also
involved are Christian Evangelists like Jack Van Impe and Timothy LaHaye who are close to the Bush administration. Their desired scenario includes the destruction of the al-Aqsa mosque, the restoration of the Third Temple on its site; the rising to heaven of the 144,000 Chosen Ones; the battle of Armageddon; mass death among Israeli Jews and the Final Coming of Jesus Christ.
In modern history, the Lubavitchers seem to be in control.
“Every part of modern history is linked to another and in itself to Zionism, state intelligence, lodges and alike. Without the Balfour declaration, there would have been no democratic revolution in Russia and no America into World War One … We may start at any historical point (even with the American revolution or more far back Oliver Cromwell) [and] we´ll see, that the maker (or profiteer) of all this is Cabalistic Judaism. All serves their plan, to implement biblical prophecy.”
Lets-watch.com
September 9th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
No man can bring Jesus down to earth. He will come on His own timing not man’s
September 10th, 2008 at 2:58 am
i voted 4 bush[well not directly,the diebold machine fixed up my vote,]thats democracy 4 you, too bad i can’t vote him in again,maybe m’cain will do it again[100 years at war],but probably bush’s backers will orcastrate a bit more marshal law ,and under the fema laws already on the books ,they can keep on keeping on,yer that vote back then was better than i could have done myself.actually i didn’t vote in that election[i am an aussie,but i have still had to put up with the fallout from it,so ah…whats on tv.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
As the presidency winds down to its last months,I can say with out a doubt this was the worst administration in the history of the free world.Although I am sure the world power brokers consider it a big success .In 8 years this country has gone from a strong American dollars to a dollars that’s not worth the paper its printed on.We have seen 2 wars initiated by the Bush,Cheney regime that has drained this country of a trillion dollars,4200 young men and women lost there lives thousands more with lifetime illnesses and a country that will not compensate them for there injuries.A deficit that was 4 trillion dollars has now grown to ten trillion dollars.This of course could only have been possible with the help of the senate and congress who have proven to me that they are nothing but a bunch of cowards and co conspirators.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:52 am
George H.W. Bush, remains in control, even to this present time.
Both presidents, Clinton and Bush Jr., have merely served as proxies of the master architect, George H.W. Bush, and the next president will also serve as one of his puppets.
George H.W. Bush, and his immediate presidential predecessor, Ronald Wilson Reagan, perfectly fulfill the prophesy of the Two Beasts of Revelation 13.
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Anyone know if the russian army wants some educated people to fight the NWO? I am sure a couple hundred thousand(easily) would be a nice start.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:52 am
See the comments on page 1.
http://www.totse.com/en/conspi.....72250.html
September 12th, 2008 at 9:17 am
good article. didn’t daddy bushie salivate over the term “New World Order” ?????
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September 13th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
The bush family and its cohorts have and are war mongers from Samuel Bush to the present
Bush .There conquest of Iraq and Afghanistan has been a total blunder from its conception to the present .We are no closer to victory now then we were 5 years ago ,and that’s if you can define what victory in this case would be.The only achievement that Bush can take credit for is the looting of 1 trillion dollars ,the death of 4200 young men and women soldiers ,thousands of vets with lifetime disabilities .The murder of 1 million civilians .All brought about by bogus information and enforced by prostitute journalist .But one thing you have to say about the Bush,s ,they don’t overlook any opportunity they exploit every possible angle.weather it be black water, Halliburton,KBR there is nothing that escapes there huge claws, when it comes down to profiteering they make Rockefeller look like a bum………………..
September 14th, 2008 at 3:52 am
This is a 3rd hand article.
See Original Source Declaration
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....608538.ece
September 14th, 2008 at 10:17 am
No New World Order! No EU! No UN! No NAFTA! People and countries of the earth should be left alone. If there was to be a UN, it should exist only to manage cooperation between nations for the conquest of space. There is no way one or two countries can achieve this alone. The UN was created after a horrific WW2. It was good thinking then but now since the elite came up with idiotic idea of controlling the Earth for profit and have infiltrated and used their money and power to buy and corrupt the system to seize control of the people, lands and environment, it is now time to redefine the role of the UN. Bring these criminals to justice while bringing back each countries sovereignty, constitution and bill of rights (if applicable). Stop all of the war mongering that’s going on in the world by these self righteous bastards and take the world into a better era.
Nice dream, Huh?