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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (239)	1/6/2003 1:19:58 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

US adopts the foreign policy doctrine of Japan at Pearl Harbor and Nazi Germany: Servile States by Ignacio Ramonet mondediplo.com <<< ... The world's geopolitical architecture now has at its apex a single hyperpower, the US, which "possesses unprecedented and unequalled strength and influence in the world" and which "will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defence by acting pre-emptively." Once a threat has been identified, "America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed." This doctrine re-establishes the right to preventive war which Hitler used in 1941 against the Soviet Union and which Japan used in the same year against the US at Pearl Harbour. It also summarily abolishes one of the basic principles of international law, established with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, that one sovereign state does not intervene, and especially not militarily, in the internal affairs of another (a principle already discarded in the 1999 Nato intervention in Kosovo) ... >>>