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Clinton= Bush by Guido Wednesday February 13, 2002 at 05:02 PM |
Bij het lezen van enkele artikels gevonden op globalresearch.org kan je veel gelijkenissen lezen tussen Clinton en Bush. De "ruige staten" staan nu op de lijn van het kwaad. Multinationals en banken controleren Amerika, nu bijna de wereld.
In speeches before the United Nations General Assembly in both 1995 and 1996, Clinton urged greater international cooperation against terrorism." Despite fervent US claims to have "no quarrel with Islam", "The US identifies all political activities that mobilize using Islamic symbols as ‘terrorism' aimed at undermining Washington's grand strategy in the Middle East." "US policymakers continue to use ‘Islamic terror' as the replacement for ‘the communist menace' or the ‘evil empire', as the ideological enemy against which all US policy should be aimed. The US is still thinking in state-based, cold war terms".[99]> [99] Fandy, Mamoun, ‘In Focus: Islamists and US Policy', Foreign Policy In Focus, Vol. 1, No. 21, December 1996
The New Enemy
It is commonplace to say that terrorism has replaced communism as the new enemy of western democracy. But this replacement has been selectively applied, geared to the goals of U.S. global hegemony. Washington's characterization of a foreign government can change radically when little or nothing has changed in that country. The Clinton administration's most recent pledge of more billions for defense came as the Pentagon upgraded North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, which they call "rogue" states, as no longer "distant" threats of possible nuclear missile attacks, an official position they had held only a few weeks before.
5. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1999, p. A7.