-Caveat Lector-
If all the stolen/illegal/corrupted/bought votes be gathered up ALL
ACROSS
the country, it would be seen that Bush did NOT lose the popular
vote. But the intention is to not let the truth be known so that the
loosers can keep placating their slaves by saying the same lies for
the next 4 years. Well, blab on. No one is listening.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:58:26 EST William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Mar. 30, 01:22 EDT
> Creating a market for Star Wars
>
> Gordon Barthos
> COLUMNIST
>
>
>
> SPACE DREAM: The U.S. has been talking about Star Wars since 1983.
> GEORGE BUSH can't claim a mandate to rock the geopolitical boat,
> much less
> capsize it.
> He barely got elected last fall. He lost the popular vote.
> And after 10 weeks his approval rating is sliding fast.
> Yet Bush has startled friends and foes alike with the sheer
> abrasiveness of
> his attitudes toward Russia, China and North Korea, and his
> indifference to
> world opinion on issues like global warming.
> Last week Bush discovered that the Russians have spies, and gave 50
> of them
> the heave-ho. He's been cool to meeting Vladimir Putin to talk arms
> control.
> His officials call the Russians "a nation of proliferators;" they
> complain
> about Moscow selling Iran weapons; they meet Chechen separatists.
> Eyeing China, they talk about the need to "fight and win a nuclear
> war," with
> Asia as the likeliest battleground. They see China as a
> "competitor," not a
> strategic partner, and lambaste it for selling Iraq technology. They
> talk of
> selling Taiwan powerful anti-missile defences.
> Meanwhile, Bush has undercut South Korea's bid to get North Korea to
> shelve
> its missile program, as it has its nuclear program, in exchange for
> trade and
> aid.
> The Bush White House calls this "clarity, realism, decisiveness."
> Critics
> call it folly.
> As the wreckage piles up, Republican think tanks crank out alarmist
> studies
> to demonstrate that the continental United States is open to attack
> and
> intimidation.
> Has the world suddenly gone on a war footing?
> Hardly.
> But the Cold War era people around Bush � Vice-President Dick Cheney
> and
> Defence Secretary Don Rumsfeld, to name two � are truly ambitious
> patriots.
> They know that the U.S. is undefeatable, and has been for a decade
> or more.
> They dream of making it invulnerable as well. They don't want even
> to be
> threatened by pipsqueak powers.
> They are convinced that Ballistic Missile Defence can deliver that
> invulnerability.
> Ronald Reagan dreamed up Star Wars in 1983 as a hedge against Soviet
> attack.
> When the Soviets went away, Iraq became the new threat. Once Iraq
> was
> humbled, North Korea stood in as the villain.
> There's no prize for spotting a trend here.
> If the Bush administration doesn't play its cards carefully, North
> Korea will
> go cuddly and there won't be a half-credible enemy left to shield
> against.
> Most Americans support the idea of a Fortress North America.
> But as the U.S. economy slows and Bush has to trim his $1.6 trillion
> tax cut
> or slash federal health, education and social services, people may
> think
> twice about sinking $100 billion into a missile shield, absent a
> clear and
> present danger.
> However, if Washington can make a persuasive case that the U.S. is
> surrounded
> by hostile countries, Star Wars would be an easier sell.
> This has implications for Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien's government,
> indeed
> for all U.S. allies.
> We've been lobbied by Washington to keep an "open mind" about
> missile
> defence, at least until Bush rolls out his plans later this year.
> Meanwhile, U.S. officials are working overtime to persuade us that
> (1)
> missile defence can work; (2) that its deployment is both necessary
> and
> inevitable; and (3) that allies must sign on, or kiss off defence
> co-operation.
> Flawed though these premises are, the Chr�tien government is
choosing not to
> question them. It should.
> The Bush administration seems bent on creating sufficient friction
> to make
> the world a truly interesting place. Not one in which Canadians can
> feel
> safer.
> That's a stiff price to pay for Republican daydreams.
> Realistically, do the Americans face a potential threat? Yes. A
> small one.
> Though a regime would be crazy to lob a missile their way.
> But working with players like the Russians and Chinese, the U.S.
> could easily
> contain bad actors.
> However Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and friends would have to settle for
> America
> being the unbeatable nation, and not the invulnerable one.
> The question for Chr�tien is this: Why should Canada be stampeded
> into
> supporting a go-alone U.S. program driven by a new global alarmism,
> and which
> will leave the world more dangerous than before?
> Rather than be cowed by Republican demagoguery, the Chr�tien
> government
> should try to remember what the world looked like before all this
> began.
> Russia was a weak, struggling democracy, tilting West and trying to
> salvage a
> shred of dignity as a faded power. China just wanted to turn a buck.
> North
> Korea was a starving beggar, seeking to come in from the cold.
> Iran was struggling with its own internal demons.
> Iraq was a broken reed.
> Who, exactly, are we worried about?
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