Fowarded from the PGA list. Sabri -------- Forwarded message -------- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 01:39:34 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Business Week opposes war! Business Week magazine, in its issue of October 14,2002 contains an unusual article entitled "A FOREIGN POLICY HARMFUL TO BUSINESS" The article is by Jeffery E. Garten who served on the staff of Kissinger and Cyrus Vance and was an officer in the Special Forces. He was Undersecretary of Commerce in the first Clinton administration. I quote sections: "In the Bush's administraton's disdain for the hard work of cultivating allies until the U.S. is pressed to he wall; in its radically new doctrine that the U.S. has the right to preemptively attack others in the name of self-defense when it alone determines there is enough of a threat; in the way it has given short shrift to international trade, finance, development, environmental policies....American has militarized its foreign policy at the expense of a large number of other goals.... When you look at the political landscape, however, who is it that can and forcefully raise this issue?....Don't look for our Congress, rarely known for its global viewpoint, let alone for taking principled stands that could cost votes....Only one group has the experience, the knowledge, the perspective, and the clear self-interest to provide some countervailing influence to the dangerous ways that Washington is throwing around American military power--and that is the nations's top business leaders." So far I havn't seen any CEOs at anti-war demonstratons. But imagine their picket signs: "Multi-nationals against War"!!! Earl Gilman ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/MVfIAA/xYTolB/TM ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----~-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
