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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Party of Citizens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: IRC Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [UNIVERSALHUMANRIGHTS] FPIF News | Risk-Transfer Militarism
Ever think of it as not Global War on Terror but "smoke and mirrors" to
distract us from the real global war which is the war to sustain human
rights against the power cliques who would rob the rest of us of our
humanity, freedom and our lives? Why do the 500 billionaire families of
the planet like the family of Prime Minister Martin need 6 billion useless
eaters around?
POC
The Governments of BC and Canada believe they have the right to torture
and kill innocent citizens. The UDHR says otherwise.
<http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada>
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, IRC Communications wrote:
> Dear colleague: This piece is a little different than what we would
> normally send you. Thank you for your time. Siri | FPIF
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> What�s New at FPIF
> �Working to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and partner�
> http://www.fpif.org/
>
> July 1, 2004
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Introducing a new report from Foreign Policy In Focus
>
> Risk-Transfer Militarism and the Legitimacy of War after Iraq
> By Martin Shaw
>
> A renaissance of warfare is one of the most striking features of the early
> twenty-first century. War, it seems, is not the prerogative of
> international criminals, but the first resort of the righteous. After
> September 11, 2001, it was widely believed that might could indeed enforce
> right: President George W. Bush was quick to proclaim his response to the
> terrorist massacre a �war� rather than a law-enforcement operation. Indeed
> the Global War on Terrorism (GWoT) quickly became an overarching framework
> for all politics and any military action, in the eyes of its supporters.
> And initially, at least, it had widespread support: as Polly Toynbee, one
> of Britain's foremost liberal commentators, put it during the campaign in
> Afghanistan, �'bombing works.� The confidence in this position, especially
> but not only in the United States, involves a striking reversal of the
> pacifistic sentiments that largely prevailed in Western democracies during
> much of the last century. It is a veritable relegitimation of war. And yet
> after the Iraq War of 2003, this confidence has been weakened and some of
> the support for the GWoT has slipped away: most obviously because of the
> thinness of its manifest rationale, Saddam Hussein's �weapons of mass
> destruction�; but also, this paper will argue, because of the
> contradictions of the new Western way of war, which I characterize as one
> of risk-transfer.
>
> Martin Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > is a Professor of International
> Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, and analyst for FPIF
> (online at www.fpif.org). This paper is based on an earlier article,
> �Risk-transfer militarism, small massacres and the historic legitimacy of
> war,� International Relations, Volume 16 (3), 343-60, 2002. Extensively
> rewritten in the light of Iraq, the present paper has appeared online on
> www.theglobalsite.ac.uk and is to be published in Paul Eden and Th�r�se
> O'Donnell, eds, 11 September 2001: A Turning Point in International and
> Domestic Law? (Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, 2004).
>
> See new FPIF Special Report online at:
> http://www.fpif.org/papers/0406militarism.html
>
> With printer friendly PDF version at:
> http://www.fpif.org/pdf/papers/0406militarism.pdf
>
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> Distributed by FPIF:�A Think Tank Without Walls,� a joint program of
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> Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC)
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> Siri D. Khalsa
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