Bush's Security Strategy
September 27, 2002
nytimes.com
To the Editor:
The Bush administration's new national security strategy (front page, Sept. 20),
despite its rejection of international cooperation, is the very
opposite of isolationism. It is a declaration of intent for global domination.
It abandons longstanding treaties and agreements on nonproliferation,
antiballistic missile defense, comprehensive nuclear test bans and
no-first-strike understandings. It announces that we will strike pre-emptively
and unilaterally against any nation that we define as a threat.
It declares that no other nation may attempt to equal our military strength:
we will "dissuade" it. It proposes a global economic policy to
be administered by instruments we control, the International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank .
In sum, it asserts that American sovereignty trumps all other
national sovereignties - America über alles.
H. JACK GEIGER, M.D.
Brooklyn, Sept. 20, 2002
The writer is a founding member and former president, Physicians for Social Responsibility .
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