Abstract:
It was no coincidence that Washington’s self-declared New World Order was preceded by termination of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, followed by that empire’s collapse; and then by the initial installment of star wars diplomacy in the Third World, in the form of the annihilation of the Iraqi conscript army and destruction of the country’s military and civilian infrastructure. Operation Desert Storm was necessitated by the events to the north. The demise of the Soviet Union – that ‘communist menace’ which for almost half century had failed at nearly everything except to legitimize the United States’ national security state – required that a substitute menace be found. Saddam Hussein unwittingly supplied his former friend and ally, George Bush, with sufficient grounds upon which a case could be fabricated that Iraq constituted the new mortal threat to world order.
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