The train is moving… where are the stations?
As we move closer to the invasion of Iraq, I have a growing sense that we are on a train that isn’t stopping at any stations. There is an inevitablity about the looming war. At a recent seminar I attended yesterday with Christine and Tom Sine (authors of mustard seed v’s mcworld), Tom mentioned the the new doctrine of ‘Pax Americana’ that underlies America’s new more aggressive foreign policy.
Jay Bookman writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on September 29, 2002 argues that the new doctrine of Pax Americana has been formulated by this administration based on the recent reality that the United States has emerged from the cold war as the only super power. He argues the real agenda isn’t about Iraq but the pursuit of American military and economic supremacy throughout the world through a new policy of the use of preemptive military power.
But don’t take Jay Bookman’s word for it go and read the policy for yourself.
The United States foreign policy affects us all and this makes this document critical to read, digest and analyse. You will fnd it a long read but still worthwhile.
I would be very interested in your comments. It is important that talk about this significant shift in the United States foreign policy.
Christine and Tom Sine also ask for comments in their forums
April 7th, 2003 at 11:46 am
@ 02/21/2003 08:03:
we still do not know if it is war or brinkmanship. that is the nature of brinkmanship.
btw I think you might mean affect not effect.
@ 02/21/2003 13:54:
all this lead up stuff. can’t we just get it over and done with. we all know the US is going to bomb the crap out of them sooner or later. If they just “cut to the chase” we can get back to our normal self-centred existance and not be bothered by all this moral crap.
April 7th, 2003 at 11:47 am
@ 02/21/2003 19:18:
Btw I think you might mean “existence”, not “existance”….
April 7th, 2003 at 11:48 am
@ 02/24/2003 10:33:
I was using it in the existentialist vernacular