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Olga Bonfiglio: Dorrien: Republican Presidential Win Would Give Free Rein To Neocon Ambitions of Empire
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He spoke once again about the neoconservatives and their quest for American global domination. The neocons became the dominant foreign policy faction in the Republican Party during the mid-1990s and continue to be so to this day, he said.
The goals of that policy in 2000 included the following:
-Repudiate the ABM treaty
-Build a global missile defense system
-Develop a strategic dominance of space
-Increase defense spending by $20 billion per year
-Establish permanent new forces in Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East
-Reinvent the U.S. military to fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars.
The election of George W. Bush allowed the neocons to institute their policy, and most of the above goals have come to pass. They were especially keen to overthrow the power structures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea, he said.
"[They] wanted to create a pro-American Iraq that gave the U.S. a direct power base, ensured the oil supply, set off a chain-reaction of regime changes, gave relief to Israel and got rid of a thuggish enemy, Saddam Hussein," said Dorrien.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 gave the Bush administration the excuse it needed to attack Afghanistan in October in an attempt to kill Osama bin Laden and quell Al Qaeda, and in 2003 to invade Iraq, which Americans were told had weapons of mass destruction.
The "stampede to war" is a regular tool for uniting the country whenever it feels it is being attacked, said Dorrien. Presidents have used it to take continental lands from the Native Americans, to extend slavery in the West and the Caribbean and to invade Latin America. From the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the Bush Doctrine of 2001, the United States has asserted its right to invade sovereign nations. In 1945 we began to amass a global military empire with bases in western Germany, Japan, Korea and the eastern Mediterranean.
By 1991 as the only superpower, the United States wondered what it would do with its unrivaled might, said Dorrien, so the neocons advocated a new kind of empire not based on the conquest of territory but on "full spectrum dominance."
Do the American people really want this shat?