This is chilling and just released:
The National Security Strategy March 2006
Each section is a link which then opens up to the plans for the National Security Strategy. It is so full of contradictions, rages against Saddam (still) and just plain bizarre-speak in some areas.
It is a long document, but if you really want to know what the US Government’s plan for the future is, this is a must read.
I think this is the New World Order in the buff.
This is the main document:
March 2006
* Introduction
*Overview of America’s National Security Strategy
*Champion Aspirations for Human Dignity
*Strengthen Alliances to Defeat Global Terrorism and Work to Prevent Attacks Against Us and Our Friends
*Work with Other to Defuse Regional Conflicts
*Prevent Our Enemies from Threatening Us, Our Allies, and Our Friends with Weapons of Mass Destruction
*Ignite a New Era of Global Economic Growth through Free Markets and Free Trade
*Expand the Circle of Development by Opening Societies and Building the Infrastructure of Democracy
*Develop Agendas for Cooperative Action with the Other Main Centers of Global Power
*Transform America’s National Security Institutions to Meet the Challenges and Opportunities of the 21st Century
*Engage the Opportunities and Confront the Challenges of *Globalization
*Conclusion
I am seriously concerned if any of this can be undone.
You decide.
It was very unnerving to me.
So, does Bush and his bad boys get to decide all by themselves what the National Security Strategy will be? Is this “official” policy? Do they really have THAT much power now? If so, how is this NOT a dictatorship?
Beam me up, Scottie.
Shall how much power they have be decided by the American people, or the world’s people?
It will all be decided by global corporate “entities”, I suspect. Nobody else will have much say, as far as I can tell.
Foreign policy has always been the perogative of the executive, with Congress’ control supposedly holding the purse.
The national security state enshrined in the late 40’s practically guaranteed that the most important foreign policy decisons need not be disclosed to the public, at least not the real driving rationales. And much would remain covert.
No one asked the American people if the US should put off the Japanese capitulation until a bomb or two could be dropped to demonstrate to the world the power of nuclear weapons. No one asked them if they thought that supporting the Indonesian slaughter of millions was essential to national security. One could go on ad nauseum, but you get the idea . . .
The unique danger Bush/Cheney present is their belief that their executive powers trump the other two branches of goverment.
They’ve made clear they feel free to ignore the will of congress (i.e. legislation), & Justice O’Conner’s warning that a declaration of war doesn’t give them a free pass doesn’t seem to have been heard. No doubt they expect a more favorable hearing of their arguments should anyone ever manage to push them into the Supreme Court over this. The preferred strategy is to have Congress approve it later by rewriting the laws when people get uppity over this or that.
So, I don’t see this document as proof of anything but their bloodthirsty, predatory imperial ways.
(pssst … we don’t call it ‘dictatorship ‘ anymore — has too many nasty connotations & it’s nice to have to kick around politicians like Aristide & Chavez — so they would prefer we go with the spiffy
unitary executive
(or ‘urinary,’ as dtf has it . . .