Thesen zum Irak-Krieg

Irak etwas unübersichtlich geworden, da chronologisch, Zusammenfassung und Ergänzung:

Erdöl

Massenvernichtungswaffen

Weltherrschaft (Militärbasen)

Demokratie

Verkauf von Waffensystemen, Flugzeugen, ...

Absatzmarkt

persönliche Aversität, christlich missionarischer Drang

Für nichts anderes zu brauchen: ‘I am a war president’ ... and I believe in Jesus, I am a Christian blablabla
 

Man sollte also vielleicht ähnlich simpel denken wie Bush, und gar nicht zu weit suchen. Es ist weitaus wahrscheinlicher, dass ein Präsident nach der Wahl immer noch primär seine eigenen Interessen vertritt, als dass er nun plötzlich an Ruhm, Ehre und Wohlergehen des Landes denkt. Weitaus plausiblere Gründe für den Krieg als nationale Sicherheit und Ehre sind also Geld, Macht und die Durchsetzung persönlicher Ueberzeugung.

Natürlich machen Politiker was sie wollen, sonst wären sie ja Angestellte oder Beamte geworden.

Wenn man sich vorstellt, dass die Leute einfach ihren privaten Interessen folgen, und nicht das tun, was man gerne von ihnen erwarten würde, also sich für das Gemeinwohl einsetzen, dann lösen sich die meisten Unstimmigkeiten des politischen Systems in Wohlgefallen auf.

Absurd? Ueberlegen Sie sich mal, welche Gründe zu den letzten Kriegen geführt haben, dann wird Ihnen vermutlich sofort klar, dass noch selten ein Grund zu absurd war, einen Krieg zu führen.

Project for the New American Century is a neo-conservative think-tank that promotes an ideology of total U.S. world domination through the use of force. The group embraces and disseminates an ideology of faith in force, U.S. supremacy, and rejection of the rule of law in international affairs.

The group's core ideas are expressed in a September 2000 report produced for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, and Lewis Libby entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century. The Sunday Herald referred to the report as a "blueprint for U.S. world domination."

The Sunday Herald article highlighted the following goals from the 2000 report, which it termed an "American grand strategy" and "blueprint of world domination":

• The U.S. must take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein is in power: "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
• The U.S. must "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars" as a "core mission"
• The U.S. forces are "the cavalry on the new American frontier"
• The report builds upon the 1992 draft document " Defense Planning Guidance," which claimed that the U.S. must "discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role"
• Permanent U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whether or not Saddam Hussein is in power
• Increasing military pressure on China: "it is time to increase the presence of American forces in southeast Asia" which will lead to "American and allied power providing the spur to the process of democratisation in China"

• "the creation of 'US Space Forces', to dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent 'enemies' using the internet against the US"
• The report contains ambivalent language toward bioterrorism and genetic warfare: "New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool"
• Development of "world-wide command-and-control system" to contain dangerous regimes of North Korea, Libya, Syria, and Iran.

Some of PNAC's members and associates have been implicated in conflict of interest scandals involving the ways that they profit from the wars and military spending that they promote. For more information, see Who Profits From War? .

http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html

The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership.

Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world.

We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan Administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities.

we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global
responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;
 

• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
 

• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;
 

• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

Wenn Sie sich die Namen der Träger der Organisation ansehen, so wird Ihnen auch sofort klar, dass dergleichen mehr als geeignet ist, Verschwörungstheorien über die jüdische Weltherrschaft wieder anzuheizen - diesmal allerdings durch die betroffenen selbst.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm