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space superiority with land, sea and air superiority will lead to Full Spectrum Dominance...Development of ballistic missile defenses using space systems and planning for precision strikes from space offers a counter to the worldwide proliferation of WMD [weapons of mass destruction]... Space is a region with increas-ing commercial, civil, international and military interests and invest-ments. The threat to these vital systems is also increasing...Control of Space is the ability to assure access to space, freedom of operations within the space medium and an ability to deny others the use of space, if required...Control of Space is a complex mission that casts USCINCSPACE [US Commander-in-Chief of space] in a classic warfighter role and mandates an established AOR [area of responsibility].54...With regard to space dominance, we have it, we like it, and were going to keep it.55...We will engage terrestrial targets someday-ships, airplanes, land targets-from space...Were going to fight in space. Were going to fight from space and were going to fight into space.56 (emphasis in original)

In 1963, the UN General Assembly adopted by unanimous acclamation a resolution calling upon all states To refrain from placing in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, installing such weapons on celestial bodies or stationing such weapons in outer space in any other manner. 57

This expressed hope is still very much alive today. On January 26, 1999, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva: One concept which is now widely shared is that of maintaining outer space as a weapons-free environment.

The Madman philosophy

In March 1998, an internal 1995 study, Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence , by the US Strategic Command, the headquarters responsible for the US strategic nuclear arsenal, was brought to light. The study stated:

Because of the value that comes from the ambiguity of what the US may do to an adversary if the acts we seek to deter are carried out, it hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed. The fact that some elements may appear to be potentially out of control can be beneficial to creating and reinforcing fears and doubts within the minds of an adversarys decision makers. This essential sense of fear is the working force of deterrence. That the US may become irrational and vindictive if its vital interests are attacked should be a part of the national persona we project to all adversaries. 58

The author of these words would have the world believe that the United States has only been pretending to be out of control or irrational and vindictive . However, it can be argued-based on the objective facts of what Washington has inflicted upon the world, as described in this book-that for more than half a century American foreign policy has, in actuality, been clinically mad.



On the other hand, the desire for world hegemony, per se, is not necessarily irrational, whatever else one may think of it. Michael Parenti has pointed out that US foreign policy may seem stupid because the rationales offered in its support often sound unconvinc-ing, leaving us with the impression that policymakers are confused or out of touch. But just because the public does not understand what they are doing does not mean that national security leaders are themselves befuddled. That they are fabricators does not mean they

are fools. 59

A Truth Commission

In recent years, the people of South Africa, Guatemala and El Salvador have held official Truth Commissions to look squarely in the eyes of the crimes committed by their governments. There will never be any such official body to investigate and document the wide body of Washingtons crimes, although several unofficial citizens commissions have done so over the years for specific interventions, such as in Vietnam, Panama and Iraq; their findings were of course ignored by the establishment media (whose ideology is a belief that it doesnt have any ideology).

In the absence of an official Truth Commission in the United States, this book is offered up as testimony.

Washington, DC, January 2000



PART I

Ours and Theirs: Washingtons Love/Hate Relationship with Terrorists and Human-Rights Violators

CHAPTER 1 : Why Do Terrorists Keep Picking on the United States?

Washingtons war on terrorism is as doomed to failure as its war on drugs has been.

I think the American people need to know that we live in a world where by virtue of Americas leadership to some degree, by virtue of a degree of fanaticism by some people, we will be targeted, declared National Security Adviser Sandy Berger after the bombings of two US African embassies on August 7, 1998.1

When asked What is it that these terrorists want from the United States? , Richard Haass, head of the foreign policy department at the Brookings Institution, replied: Well, the answer is its not anything were simply doing. It is who we are. Its the fact that were the most powerful country in the world. Its the fact that were a secular country...It is simply who we are and it is our existence that really bothers them. 2

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times would say amen. Terrorists, he wrote, have no specific ideological program or demands. Rather, they are driven by a generalized hatred of the U.S., Israel and other supposed enemies of Islam. 3

Finally, we have President Clinton: Americans are targets of terrorism, in part, because we act to advance peace and democracy and because we stand united against terrorism. 4

These are some of the platitudes our leaders and pundits feed us after each terrorist attack against an American installation. It is...the image of America the beauteous on its hill, so envied by all that it is subject to attacks by terrorists who cannot bear so much sheer goodness to triumph in a world that belongs to their master, the son of morning himself, Satan. Gore Vidal 5

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the ter-rorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States...



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