I am getting deluged with articles like this. I _think_ it is coming from the neoconservative ignorati, and has something to do with their perspectives that we (the West) are in a (military) clash of cultures with Islam. Of course, this is nonsense, but it doesn give them a sense of beiung engaged in a heroic, God-pleasing conflict. Sad. And dangerous. It is generous of Kissinger to suggest that Bush's mania might create a problem for us in India, but in fact Kissinger underestimates the problems that the Bush 'doctrine' has already caused us, and they will be all the greater when the administration starts to act on the notion that what we want, we take, and the world be damned.
Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Watters Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Keith Hudson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Gulf War II/Israeli War IV > > > Jan, Keith, Lawry et al: What does it mean to you that articles like this > are appearing in the mainstream press? > Also, did you see Henry Kissinger's piece relaying the history of the 1648 > Treat of Westphalia, establishing "the principle of nonintervention in the > domestic affairs of other states" to illustrate how revolutionary the Bush > doctrine may be and why it is necessary (WMD)? His Eminence suggests that > Europe will grudgingly support Bush, if at all, but that "the most > interesting, and potentially fateful, reaction, may well be India's, which > will be tempted to apply the new principle of pre-emption against > akistan." - Karen > > Beyond Baghdad: [PARA]Expanding Target List[PARA]Washington looks at > overhauling the Islamic and Arab world[PARA][PARA][PARA][PARA]Iranian > President Mohammed Khatami's efforts at reform have been hindered by the > unelected mullahs who dominate public life > > By Roy Gutman and John Barry > NEWSWEEK > > Aug. 19 issue - While still wrangling over how to overthrow Iraq's Saddam > Hussein, the Bush administration is already looking for other targets. > President Bush has called for the ouster of Palestinian leader > Yasir Arafat. > Now some in the administration-and allies at D.C. think tanks-are eyeing > Iran and even Saudi Arabia. As one senior British official put > it: "Everyone > wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran." > > ... Richard Perle, chairman of Bush's Defense Policy Board, > recently invited > a controversial French scholar to brief the outside advisers on > "taking the > Saudi out of Arabia." When word leaked to the press, the Bush > administration strongly denied it wanted to oust the Saudi royal regime. > Still, some insiders continue to whisper about the possibility. Syria and > even Egypt are now under discussion in neoconservative circles, along with > North Korea and Burma." > > ...Tony Blair, the only foreign leader who might join in a U.S.-led > intervention in Iraq, is asking tough questions. "He wants to know a lot > more about what the administration's real agenda is," says a top > Blair aide. > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/792516.asp > > > > > >
