Slippery slope from 'strategic competitor' to outright adversary

[Chris Burford]

The head of the security committee of the House of Lords (UK - where else 
would you have a House of Lords?) said in an interview at the time of the 
US mission to Europe to sell the missile defence system, that the US 
representatives said privately that the real enemy was not rogue states, 
but China.

It is essential for Bush's hegemonic plan that China plays a sufficiently 
credible role as main enemy to jjustify this sytem. This system would allow 
the US to punish erring states with lasers. So much safer than the high 
altitude bombing during the Kosovo war.

A global state is being created and the political question is whether other 
countries will allow the US to set it up and run the coercive forces. The 
US badly needs China as an enemy to keep its rival imperialist powers in line.

The counterploy is to argue for international security systems that are 
more widely accountable.

Chris Burford

London

London