On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 07:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
It occurs to me that the "Project for the New American Century" people's well-known despite for international law and treaties and the UN is ...
They recognise that the USA is the strongest military power in the world, at least for the next few decades, and they want to use those few decades either to prevent anyone else catching up with them or (because they aren't so stupid as to believe they can get away with that for ever) to remake the rest of the world in their own image so that if Europe, China, or India ever again draw close to them in economic or military power we will have been conditioned to behave in American ways.
They despise the idea of international law or treaty obligations.
Speaking of the next couple of decades in the United States, I'm going to be chortling when a leftist President takes power and uses the same tools the Right is now using: -- pre-emptive wars not declared by Congress (let alone not for clear and present danger reasons) -- PATRIOT Act snooping, illegal searches, and unlimited detentions -- the whole system of police state measures -- a Homeland Security Director that would do Fidel Castro or Ralph Nader proud APRIL, 2009. WASHINGTON (Routers) -- President Clinton today declared that the illegal regime in Switzerland must be removed to protect American from tax cheats and corporate criminals. She cited the Bush Doctrine as justification. She urged the Swiss government to lay down their arms and report to reprocessing centers in Coalition of the Willing nations like Lichtenstein. OCTOBER, 2010. WASHINGTON (Routers) -- Administration officials announced today the detention of another 4000 illegal combatants in America's war on unauthorized communication systems and other terrorist devices. "These high tech criminals have been helping the drug dealers and have undermined our approach to stamping out tools for tax evasion," said Homeland Security Director Kweizi Mfume. Mfume noted that last summer's raid on the illegal "Crypto" conference had netted more than 150 information terrorists. He added that some are cooperating and may be moved from Guantanomo to U.S. processing facilities. --Tim May "Al Qaida was never the real threat...Afghanistan is." "Aghanistan was never the real threat...Iraq is." "Iraq was never the real threat...Syria is." "Syria was never the real threat...stay tuned."