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Why WWIII Is On The Horizon - Paul Craig Roberts
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism.
The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action.
With the removal of this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives
declared their agenda of US world hegemony. America was now the “sole
superpower,” the “unipower,” that could act without restraint anywhere
in the world.
The Washington Post neoconservative journalist Charles Krauthammer summed up the “new reality” as follows:
“We have overwheming global power. We are
history’s designated custodians of the international system. When the
Soviet Union fell, something new was born, something utterly new–a
unipolar world dominated by a single superpower unchecked by any rival
and with decisive reach in every corner of the globe. This is a
stagering new development in history, not seen since the fall of Rome.
Even Rome was no model for what America is today.”
The staggering unipolar power that
history has given to Washington has to be protected at all costs. In
1992 top Pentagon official Undersecretary Paul Wolfowitz penned the
Wolfowitz Doctrine, which became the basis for Washington’s foreign
policy.
The Wolfowitz Doctrine states that the
“first objective” of American foreign and military policy is “to prevent
the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former
Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat [to US unilateral action]
on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a
dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and
requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a
region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient
to generate global power.” (A “hostile power” is a country sufficiently
strong to have a foreign policy independent from Washington’s.)
The unilateral assertion of American
power begin in ernest during the Clinton regime with the interventions
in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo, and the no-fly zone imposed on Iraq. In
1997 the neoconservatives penned their “Project for a New American
Century.” In 1998, three years prior to 9/11, the neoconservatives sent a
letter to President Clinton calling for regime change in Iraq and “the
removal of Saddam Hussein from power.” Neoconservatives set out their
program for removing seven governments in five years. http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
