Ruling Class Lackeys and Mouthpieces

[Michael Hoover]

> >      The bottom line is clear: Expanding NATO will enhance our security.
> >      It is the right thing to do. We must not fail history's challenge
> >      at this moment to build a Europe peaceful, democratic, and
> >      undivided, allied with us to face new security threats of the new
> >      century--a Europe that will avoid repeating the darkest moments of
> >      the 20th century and fulfill the brilliant possibilities of the
> >      21st.
> >      
> >                                      --President Clinton. Remarks to the
> >                                      U.S. Military Academy
> >                                      at West Point, New York, May 31,
> >                                      1997
> >    
> >      [Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic] will not just be consumers
> >      of security by the United States but producers of a more secure
> >      Europe; and also because the United States has interests in Europe,
> >      producers of security for the United States. So it's a pretty good
> >      deal, I think, not only for the three countries that are coming in,
> >      because it obviously is for them, but for the United States. [The]
> >      United States has shown over and over again that American interests
> >      are affected by what happens in Europe.
> >      
> >                                      --Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.
> >                                      Interview on Newshour
> >                                       With Jim Lehrer, July 9, 1997
> >    
> >      NATO enlargement is critical to protecting and promoting our vital
> >      national security interests in Europe. If we fail to seize this
> >      historic opportunity to help integrate, consolidate, and stabilize
> >      Central and Eastern Europe, we would risk paying a much higher
> >      price later.
> >      
> >                                      --Secretary of Defense William
> >                                      Cohen. Statement before the Senate
> >                                      Armed Services Committee, April 23,
> >                                      1997
> >    
> >      [I]f we wish to ensure that we build a stable Europe, a stable and
> >      undivided Europe, it's right to enlarge NATO and offer the Central
> >      and East European countries the same opportunity that Western
> >      Europe has, while at the same time building a special relationship
> >      with Russia.
> >      
> >                                      --General John M. Shalikashvili,
> >                                      Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
> >                                      Press interview, June 16, 1997
> >    
> >      Enlarging NATO is in America's moral, strategic and political
> >      interests.
> >      
> >                                      --Senator Trent Lott (R-MS). "The
> >                                       Senate's Role in NATO
> >                                       Enlargement," The Washington Post,
> >                                       March 21, 1997
> >    
> >      And why expand NATO now? The reason for doing that is peace and
> >      security. We want to fill a vacuum in Eastern Europe. We want to
> >      give Eastern and Central Europe the same opportunity we helped give
> >      Western Europe, to democratize and reform for freedom. . . . And
> >      the fact is that an undivided Europe, democratic, is the best
> >      chance for peace in our time.
> >      
> >                                      --Senator William Roth (R-DE). Press
> >                                       conference, Madrid, Spain,
> >                                       July 7, 1997
> >    
> >      The enlargement of NATO will strengthen security, freedom, and
> >      peace in Europe. It will secure the gains of democracy in Central
> >      Europe.
> >      
> >                                      --Senator Bob Dole (R-KS). Remarks
> >                                       to the Philadelphia World
> >                                       Affairs Council, June 25, 1996
> >    
> >      The Cold War's legacy of great power confrontation in Europe will
> >      be truly ended only when it is replaced by a collaborative
> >      structure between former antagonists. The expansion of NATO should
> >      be seen in that light.
> >      
> >                                      --James Baker III, former Secretary
> >                                      of State. "Political Synergism
> >                                      and NATO," The Washington Times, May
> >                                      9, 1997
> >    
> >      NATO's enlargement represents above all an overriding American
> >      political interest.
> >      
> >                                      --Henry Kissinger, former Secretary
> >                                      of State. "NATO: Make It
> >                                      Stronger,Make It Larger," The
> >                                      Washington Post,
> >                                      January 14, 1997
> >    
> >      The Alliance . . . is first and foremost an instrument of democracy
> >      intended to defend mutually held and created political and
> >      spiritual values. . . . NATO expansion should be perceived as a
> >      continuous process, in which the nations of Central and Eastern
> >      Europe mature toward the meaning, values, and goals of the enlarged
> >      and revived alliance.
> >      
> >                                      --Vaclav Havel, President of the
> >                                      Czech Republic. "NATO's Quality
> >                                      Of Life," The New York Times, May
> >                                      13, 1997
> >    
> >      [O]ur energies must be directed towards strengthening NATO, which
> >      is as important in the post-Cold War world as in the circumstances
> >      of its creation. NATO's role should be expanded. . . . It must be
> >      prepared to accept the Czech Republic and other Central European
> >      countries as full members.
> >      
> >                                      --Margaret Thatcher, former British
> >                                      Prime Minister. "The Common
> >                                      Crisis: Atlantic Solutions." Remarks
> >                                      before the New Atlantic
> >                                      Initiatives Congress of Prague,
> >                                      Spring 1996
> >    
> >      The security benefits of NATO enlargement are also matched by
> >      economic benefits--for Europe, and for American business. Most
> >      important, by preserving and deepening the stable security that now
> >      exists in Central Europe, NATO enlargement will ensure that the
> >      region's robust economic growth can continue. Our business
> >      community has a stake in preventing an American retreat from the
> >      world, and in the broadest sense that is what the vote over NATO
> >      enlargement will be about.
> >      
> >                                      --Lawrence Summers, Deputy Secretary
> >                                       of the Treasury. Remarks
> >                                       before the International Forum,
> >                                       U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
> >                                      April 11, 1997
> >    
> >      Expansion of NATO is a logical and essential consequence of the
> >      disappearance of the Iron Curtain and the need to widen European
> >      unity based on shared democratic values.
> >      
> >                                      --Richard Holbrooke, former
> >                                       Assistant Secretary of State.
> >                                      "America, A European Power," Foreign
> >                                      Affairs, March/April 1995
> >    
> >      NATO expansion means peace and stability, not a drive at
> >      confrontation with anybody. This is not a question of aggravating
> >      or humiliating Russia. It is a question of peace in the world.
> >      Poland and other countries which want to join NATO have peaceful
> >      aspirations.
> >      
> >                                      --Lech Walesa, former President of
> >                                      Poland and founder of Solidarity.
> >                                      Quoted in The Montreal Gazette,
> >                                      March 11, 1997
> 
> 
> as James Madison wrote in 1787, 'War is the true nurse of executive
> aggrandizement.'   Michael Hoover
>