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2003-12-31 15:39 | User Profile
Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 31/12/2003)
President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites.
The manifesto, presented as a "manual for victory" in the war on terror, also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies.
The manifesto is contained in a new book by Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser and "intellectual guru" of the hardline neo-conservative movement, and David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter. They give warning of a faltering of the "will to win" in Washington.
In the battle for the president's ear, the manifesto represents an attempt by hawks to break out of the post-Iraq doldrums and strike back at what they see as a campaign of hostile leaking by their foes in such centres of caution as the State Department or in the military top brass.
Their publication, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, coincided with the latest broadside from the hawks' enemy number one, Colin Powell, the secretary of state.
Though on leave recovering from a prostate cancer operation, Mr Powell summoned reporters to his bedside to hail "encouraging" signs of a "new attitude" in Iran and call for the United States to keep open the prospect of dialogue with the Teheran authorities.
Such talk is anathema to hawks like Mr Perle and Mr Frum who urge Washington to shun the mullahs and work for their overthrow in concert with Iranian dissidents.
It may be assumed that their instincts at least are shared by hawks inside the government, whose twin power bases are the Pentagon's civilian leadership and the office of the vice-president, Dick Cheney.
Such officials prevailed over invading Afghanistan and Iraq, but have been seen as on the back foot since the autumn as their post-war visions of building a secular, free-market Iraq were scaled back in favour of compromise and a swift handover of power next June.
The book demands that any talks with North Korea require the complete and immediate abandonment of its nuclear programme.
As North Korea will probably refuse such terms, the book urges a Cuba-style military blockade and overt preparations for war, including the rapid pullback of US forces from the inter-Korean border so that they move out of range of North Korean artillery.
Such steps, with luck, will prompt China to oust its nominal ally, Kim Jong-il, and install a saner regime in North Korea, the authors write.
The authoritarian rule of Syria's leader, Bashar Assad, should also be ended, encouraged by shutting oil supplies from Iraq, seizing arms he buys from Iran, and raids into Syria to hunt terrorists.
The authors urge Mr Bush to "tell the truth about Saudi Arabia". Wealthy Saudis, some of them royal princes, fund al-Qa'eda, they write.
The Saudi government backs "terror-tainted Islamic organisations" as part of a larger campaign to "spread its extremist version of Islam throughout the Muslim world and into Europe and North America".
The book calls for tough action against France and its dreams of offsetting US power. "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington," it states. Britain's independence from Europe should be preserved, perhaps with open access for British arms to American defence markets.
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The manifesto is contained in a new book by Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser and "intellectual guru" of the hardline neo-conservative movement, and David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter.
Damn! Who would have thunk it? Let's see, we have a person who has severe ethical problems via conflict of interests, and a smear artist of the first degree.
Their publication, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, coincided with the latest broadside from the hawks' enemy number one, Colin Powell, the secretary of state.
Soon to be the latest hit on b.s. neo-con talk radio and FOX News. More swill for the lemmings who are too brain dead to understand what this is really all about.
Such talk is anathema to hawks like Mr Perle and Mr Frum who urge Washington to shun the mullahs and work for their overthrow in concert with Iranian dissidents.
I wonder who these "dissidents" are? I know they aren't thinking of the younger folks who are fed up with the mullahs, so they must be those surrounding the late Shah's son. That is to say more Ahmad Chalabi type of crooks with even more crooked intelligence.
The authors urge Mr Bush to "tell the truth about Saudi Arabia". Wealthy Saudis, some of them royal princes, fund al-Qa'eda, they write.
And while we're at it, let's take a good hard look at the antics of these worthies as well.
The book calls for tough action against France and its dreams of offsetting US power. "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington,"
Hooray! Let's refight WW II again execpt this time we'll make those nasty frogs the enemy! Hell, why stop there? Let's declare war against [u]all of Europe.[/u]
These lunatics never quit. One can sense the utter hatred they have for the West.
2003-12-31 16:01 | User Profile
Sert, I think the neo-khans are getting more and more desperate each passing day, especially naming allies like Saudi Arabia and FRANCE! as potential enemies. These vipers have no limits in their depravity. I even think Dumb-ya sees these serpents as dangerous and evil.
But, I sense a sarcastic tone in the article written by this guy David Rennie, as he himself probably finds Frum and Perle's rants as those of deranged psychotics hell bent on Armegeddon. I think most people reading this article would find themselves wondering just who is really calling the shots in DC and why are these people such shills for starting 4 more wars in '04.
The jewish cabal is getting impatient, and now they're taking off their masks with their shrieking demands for JWO and Greater Israel. I mean, they named their hit piece a "manifesto"!
2004 is going to be a sad year for the world if the necons are not deposed of but soon.
2003-12-31 17:47 | User Profile
Zhids use this opportunity to express their milennia-old hatred towards other nations. "Terror" is just an excuse the eternal opportunists and liars have been using. In the news: NYC mayor Bloomberg will be defying terrorists by not skipping the festivities on Times Square. Amerikwa has become a fvcking joke.
2003-12-31 17:53 | User Profile
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2003-12-31 18:53 | User Profile
Xmetal,
I hear you. They are sounding more shrill lately, aren't they? I think they realize that it is a race against time. If they don't suceed in getting Bush to start these wars soon then the lemmings will wake up. I know that most people are incredibly ignorant about this, but surely not everyone is stupid.
Mad Russian,
Yes, what we have here is the Jews' age old hatred of Europe. I think they hate Europeans almost as much as they do Arabs. Of course because of their inability to get along with anyone they expect the rest of us to adopt their hatreds as well. Two world wars were enough as far as I am concern. Maybe Putin will do everyone a favor and blow the "shitty little country" off the face of the earth before "world war four" becomes a reality.
2004-01-01 13:40 | User Profile
Just a reminder where we are heading.
[SIZE=4]Global democracy needs continual push [/SIZE]
[URL=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001826483_matt31.html]The Seattle Times[/URL]
AS 2003 draws to a close, the push for global democracy is growing stronger. Events of recent weeks, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, suggest the days of dictators are numbered.
Syndicated columnist and U.S. Army Reserve Col. Austin Bay observes, "Every Middle Eastern autocrat saw the haggard Saddam pulled from the hole... . To avoid Saddam's fate means political liberalization. The Iranian mullahs are on notice."
So are U.S. leaders. Worried about neighboring Iranian extremists in the 1980s, we once supported Saddam. Such thinking even permeated now-squeamish liberal media. As The New York Times notably editorialized on Oct. 20, 1987, "Containing Iran is in the interest of the U.S.... If Iraq suddenly crumples, it will be even harder to defend the oil-rich region against a victorious Iran."
Now, some have learned that "the enemy of my enemy" cannot be my friend if he is also the enemy of his own people.
It is no coincidence that a week after Saddam's capture, U.S. and British negotiators — who'd been quietly working with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi for months — suddenly had in hand his formal commitment to allow inspections aimed at dismantling Libya's weapons of mass destruction programs.
The welcome international scrutiny will nudge the door open wider for improving human rights in Libya — where some 1,000 political opponents of Gadhafi have been jailed, and independent media, political parties and civic groups banned.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the newly created loya jirga, or constitutional convention, recently held its historic first meetings, the way cleared by U.S.-led forces after Sept. 11, 2001. Female representatives are included in the council, infuriating formerly dominant Islamic extremists whose "traditional" views deny women education, representation and, essentially, personhood.
Yes, indeed, we provided weapons to Sunni and Shiite Muslims battling a brutal Soviet campaign of terror in Afghanistan in the '80s. Now, the U.S. is helping Afghans finally get it right, rebuilding the war-torn country as moderate Muslims lay groundwork for the future, including presidential elections next year.
In Haiti last week, the renowned rock group Boukman Eksperyans headlined a rally of more than 1,000 musicians, painters and writers calling for removal of dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide — overseer of rampant poverty, disease, corruption, political killings, and widespread thuggery. Days later, 10,000 Haitians rallied against Aristide, who was unconscionably restored to power in 1994 by the U.S. under President Clinton.
Over time, grass-roots ferment will increasingly hasten liberty where it's most needed. Freedom is the big idea of the age.
In his new book, "Breaking The Real Axis of Evil," Mark Palmer says the world's democracies must help end the 40-plus remaining dictatorships by 2025. Palmer is a 26-year U.S. Foreign Service officer, former ambassador to Hungary and co-founder of the Community of Democracies (an international advocacy group which drew 110 nations to its 2002 Seoul, South Korea, conference).
**Palmer's 2025 "deadline for dictators" agenda includes highly publicized annual reports, criminal indictments, and democracy-development plans for each remaining dictatorship. He asserts that the Community of Democracies and NATO must become the pre-eminent global democratic alliance; and nongovernmental democrats inside dictatorships must be organized and elevated to leading roles. **
To help, Palmer says foundations, businesses and global activists must promote social justice in emerging democracies by better utilizing media and the Internet, and **teaching nonviolent change. When necessary, the use of force must be considered, Palmer says. **
Whether one agrees with each of Palmer's prescriptions isn't the point. It's clear a new, true prodemocracy alliance must supplant the timid United Nations, which has seen its real influence pass irretrievably.
Along with building a new coalition of the willing, the U.S. must help to broker a settlement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Also important in symbolic and practical terms is encouraging democratic reforms in China and Saudi Arabia.
As well, human-rights activists say the international community has done far too little in Sudan, where hard-line Islamic rulers from the north have killed 2 million Christians and animists in the south during a 20-year civil war.
Tactful restraint can carry its own price tag of lives taken. Like isolationist paleo-conservatives, America's laissez-faire leftists have lost their way — oblivious to any state-sponsored oppression they can't try to pin on the U.S. or Israel.
Palmer says the age of dictators must end. "It is time these dangerous political relics went extinct... . We must join together the world's democracies and democrats to oust the last dictators and build **universal democracy." **
These days, such democrats are rarely U.S. Democrats.
President Bush has shown uncommon mettle, but can do even more to help advance global democracy. Whoever succeeds him in January 2009 must also heed Palmer's urgent message.
Matt Rosenberg is a Seattle writer and regular contributor to The Times' editorial pages. E-mail him at [email]oudist@nwlink.com[/email]
2004-01-01 14:55 | User Profile
Jamestown,
Most interesting. I'm surprised that Mark Palmer and his "Coalition for Democracy" isn't listed on this website. [url=http://www.irc-online.org/]http://www.irc-online.org/[/url] Then again, these front groups that probably has a membership (and one that shares members between other front groups) of maybe ten. They sprout up like weeds and while they have impressive names and try to present themselves as some sort of large group of concern citizens they are really well funded small time pressure groups that the neocons and their allies hide behind. It appears that they using a variation of Willi Munzenberg's popular front tactics by creating all these various organizations with the seemingly large support provided by the useful idiots who think that talk radio is conservative.
"laissez-faire leftists." What in the hell is he talking about here? A left-libertarian? Il Ragno is right. They have abuse the traditional understanding of political terms to render them meaningless all for the purpose of concealing their real intentions.
The above link is a leftwing group. However, I think they are preforming a useful service by keeping up with these seemly "spontaneous" organizations. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Palmer's group is tied in with the other fronts listed there.
Happy New Year to you and everyone else here.