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发信人: pippen (大国放火是点灯), 信区: English
标题: CBC：一个新美国世纪
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Sun Mar 23 12:55:36 2003) , 转信

发信人: pippen (大国放火是点灯), 信区: WarofIRAQ
标题: CBC：一个新美国世纪
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Sun Mar 23 01:18:24 2003) , 转信

Reality Check: A New American Century
CBC News Online | March 17, 2003
http://www.cbc.ca/news/iraq/issues_analysis/realitycheck030317.html

Could this conflict have been avoided? As the CBC Reality Check team found, th

e current course of events has been carefully planned by a powerful group of m

en, beginning even before George Bush assumed the U.S. presidency.

George W. Bush, presidential candidate, said on Oct. 11, 2000.

"I think one way for us to end up being viewed as the ugly American is for us

to go around the world saying, 'We do it this way, so should you.'"

One of Bush's more recent speeches is somewhat different: "The world has a cle

ar interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nation

s do not breed the ideologies of murder... By the resolve and purpose of Ameri

ca, and of our friends and allies, we will make this an age of progress and li

berty."

So, what happened? After the terrorist attacks on September 11, Bush had to re

think. But for many of those around him, there was no need to. Long before Sep

t. 11, influential neo-conservatives wanted to see America as an enlightened r

uler, unchallenged, astride the world. Long before Bush was elected president,

they got together and they wrote down a manifesto.

The document was effectively a charter of the Project for a New American Centu

ry, a neo-conservative think tank in Washington.

Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says, "In essence IT'S A CALL

FOR AN AMERICAN EMPIRE, for what they call Pax Americana ... it's basically sa

ying that the United States has to take responsibility and to enforce peace ar

ound the world and enforce what they call American principles and American int

erests."

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