Why WWIII Is On The Horizon — Paul Craig Roberts
By 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.
