It's Simple- They Want to Rule the World

An article from Harper's. A reminder to us all.


Dick Cheney’s Song of America
The Plan is for the United States to rule the world.


by David Armstrong

November 5, 2005
Harper's Magazine, Oct 2002, Vol. 305, Issue 1829 - 2002-10-01

The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

Few writers are more ambitious than the writers of government policy papers, and few policy papers are more ambitious than Dick Cheney’s masterwork. It has taken several forms over the last decade and is in fact the product of several ghostwriters (notably Paul Wolfowitz and Colin Powell), but Cheney has been consistent in his dedication to the ideas in the documents that bear his name, and he has maintained a close association with the ideologues behind them. Let us, therefore, call Cheney the author, and this series of documents the Plan.

The Plan was published in unclassified form most recently under the title of Defense Strategy for the 1990s, (pdf) as Cheney ended his term as secretary of defense under the elder George Bush in early 1993, but it is, like “Leaves of Grass,” a perpetually evolving work. It was the controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft of 1992 – from which Cheney, unconvincingly, tried to distance himself – and it was the somewhat less aggressive revised draft of that same year. This June it was a presidential lecture in the form of a commencement address at West Point, and in July it was leaked to the press as yet another Defense Planning Guidance (this time under the pen name of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld). It will take its ultimate form, though, as America’s new national security strategy – and Cheney et al. will experience what few writers have even dared dream: their words will become our reality.

The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

The Plan is disturbing in many ways, and ultimately unworkable. Yet it is being sold now as an answer to the “new realities” of the post-September 11 world, even as it was sold previously as the answer to the new realities of the post-Cold War world. For Cheney, the Plan has always been the right answer, no matter how different the questions.

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earlier that it had been Cheney's intention to invade Iraq prior to Bush, Jr being elected - shouldn't that be part of the investigation on how the American people were led into war?

Think global.

The same thing we do every night, George: TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

Nice! Very nice!

MojoXN

so that would make Shrubman be Pinky, eh?

brilliant assessments at times. Profound even. * isn't that smart, nor deep!
jmo:evilgrin:

Peace
V

One of my all-time favorite cartoons!

just the juicy parts.

Similar in my mind too, we don't need no intelligent design.

Latin America pretty much collectively gave * the middle finger here recently, and oh yeah the rest of the world loathes Bushco, so let them try, they'll fail miserably.

What cheney proposes is not ruling the world, but rather competing
with several other world empires for global dominance. And in that
sense, his proposal will end in a war like world war 2, just hopefully
the consenses after that mass murdering, will be to manage a collective
empire, leaving the competing empires meme burried under "failed
politics" at the war memorials.

The NSS suggests that the US must be so dominant as to pre-empt any and all nations from even considering attempting to compete with our hegemony. This hegemony is to be military and economic.

Now, that isn't to say that strategy won't be confounded, but that is what the Cheney's Crazies have rammed into our foreign policy.

Imagine if you were a security advisor to one of the other 200 countries
on this earth that are endangered by US corporatism and military
adventurism. You would surely advise to stay "friendly" towards
the US, as not to attract the military, and devise all your national
strategies to keep the US military away from your borders.

Well, then what happens when the US army plops itsself down in central
asia with a small troop strength, can barely support the political cost
of 2000 dead, let alone the economic cost of billions in the hole. THe
army is surrounded in asia, and the chateau fantatical zealots back
home, think they've conquored the world. When previous world armies
have been surrounded in asia, the picture was seldomly so sunny.

So, say, that the country you're advising is near iraq somewhere, and
the US "could" invade this nation. Then your hope must be to not raise
the ire of the american government to invade, and as well, to execute
all methods of strategic influence to drain them of long term influence.
This bush simpleton does not get, that people are "smart" our there,
much smarter than cheny or bush, and their primary objective is to
survive when the elephant collapses, not getting stepped on in the
struggle, but praying for the elephant to fall apart without war.

So by the very nature, smiling faces at diplomatic events, and
thousand daggers, has bush made the world insecure, trust no longer,
and rather treacherous plans for the death of the king and the
succession of competing regional empires. China will then push the
US off its borders and sea lanes, russia as well, each asserting
their "unilateral" behaviour liberty granted by the bush behaviour.
... and we're back to the world of competing empires already.

could rule the world? Could that provide enough motivation to actually throw elections?

In the 1970s, there used to be this utopian dream floating around about a one-world government for the planet. The hope was that with just one government, there'd be no more wars.

15 years ago, a co-worker handed me a thick folder with a 200 page tract about the coming "New World Order." Black helicopters, barbed-wire fences, the whole deal. I laughed and threw it aside.

Since then we've had NAFTA and GATT and WTO and all these business entities making this one-world thing more of a reality every year.

So the question is, if we move to this one-world government, who's going to rule it? Who is going to be the ruling interest? Who do we want? China? Russia? Iran? The U.S.? Wall Street?

Utopia really sucks.

It's all in there. Open secrets.

Humans used to be many small groups of people living in caves picking a berry here and there. As a species, we've slowly centralized and consolidated power into governments and corporations, by war and trade. The logical conclusion of that is one entity eventually, as long as the energy(i.e. oil, nuclear, whatever) is there to continue the complexities of civilization. Especially as nation-states lose their power to multi-national corporations.

That's my theory anyway, even though I know I've never been very good explaining my thoughts in words. Whether that involves black helicopters, I don't know.

The overreaching for domminance while we ignore our problems at home has been making the US weaker, both as an economic power and militarily.

One of the most pronounced effects of the Iraq War is that it has actually WEAKENED the perception of thge US as a superpower. It showed the world that we really are incapable of asserting our will militarily without tearing our own nation apart.

They wanted to make us stronger but they have made us weaker.

in fact they want to destroy us every bit as much as those who are perceived as the other. We are mere chattel and we are not to have a voice only a few crumbs if we beg properly and genuflect to the gods of capital.

It is very important that we understand that "they" are not "us". "They" want a weakened populace, always have. Social control.