THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume V, Issue # 71, March 18, 2003
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE ENDEAVOR TO PURSUE A WAR WITH IRAQ:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT ALONE!
By Alan Caruba
There is a widespread perception that America is alone in its efforts to pursue a war with Iraq. This perception has been magnified by the refusal of the United Nations Security Council to grant "permission" to take action against Saddam Hussein and a corrupt, im- moral regime that has demonstrated to the world the absurdity of the UN.
As columnist George Will recently noted, "The United Nations is premodern because it is unaccountable and irresponsible: It claims powers not legitimized by the recurring con- cept of periodically consulted constituencies of the governed. Inebriated by self-approv- al, the United Nations is grounded in neither democratic consent, nor territorial respon- sibilities, nor independent fiscal means, nor the material means of enforcing its judge- ments."
In brief, the United Nations is a farce. And it is an extremely dangerous one that has plans to become the sole governing body of the world. It has asserted the right to impose taxes on all financial transactions. It has created its own International Criminal Court that can indict everyone from the President of the United States to the lowliest private in our military. It wants to establish its own military force. It asserts authority over the en- tire landmass and all the oceans of the Earth. It advocates population control comparable to that in force in Red China. Its treaties, protocols, and conventions seek to impose its total control over all aspects of life on Earth.
The charade being played out in the UN today is led by France, creating the perception that Europe does not support the United States of America. This perception, however, is far from the truth.
Ziad K. Abdelnour, who leads the effort to free Lebanon from the control of Syria, has recently dispelled that notion with a careful analysis entitled "American Isolation and the European Reality." He points out that "If Washington is in fact isolated and has torn apart the U.S.-European relationship, a reasonable case could be made that Iraq is not worth it."
However, the reality is quite different from the perception. "A large number of European nations have aligned themselves with the United States. Explicitly committed to the U.S. position are the United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hun- gary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia, Portugal, Bosnia, and Montene- gro, whose foreign policy is independent of Serbia's."
Moreover, there is a second group of European nations that also support America, and they include the Netherlands, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Slovakia. Ab- delnour notes that a third group "remains rigorously neutral: Ireland, Austria, Finland, Serbia, Switzerland, and Norway."
Does this sound to you like the U.S.A. is isolated in Europe? Or does this begin to add up to a European community of nations that does not want to put their national sovereignty and future into the hands of France and Germany? It is the leaders of these nations that provide the support, as opposed to a widespread resistance to war for any reason--re- sistance that we are seeing in the protests in the streets.In this respect, the leaders are acting more responsibly than their citizens.
So far as the war is concerned, even the casual reader of the news knows that most of the nations of the Middle East are giving their support as well. It may not be as open as Kuwait, Bahrain or the United Arab Emirates, but even Saudi Arabia will cooperate. All understand that the enemy is Iraq, not the United States.
In the end, the United States Constitution opens with a preamble that says the Constitu- tion is being instituted in part "for the common defense" and, having been attacked on 9-11 by a shadowy organization supported by nation-states such as Iraq, Syria, (and Saudi Arabia), among others, it is the duty of the President to defend America from any threat, no matter how near or how far.
We are not alone, but even if we were, we can do no less than to vanquish our enemies.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
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The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
The Middle East & the Arabs
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center (www.anxietycenter.com). He is the author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS. THE UNITED STATES, both available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maple- wood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2003 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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