[lbo-talk] Bush unveils plans for US colonial office

[Mike Ballard]

Max Boot is mentioned in this article.  Gosh, he's important.  And,
he's been to the best schools. So, he must be a wonderful guy with lots
of intelligent things to say.  He's even on the Council for Foreign
Relations.  He's like "the superhero of the current economic slump". 
Quoth Max, "The US needs its own version of the British Colonial Office
for the postimperial (sic) age. The recent decision to set up an Office
of Reconstruction and Stabilization within the State Department is a
good start."

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/boot/boot.php

Regards,

Mike B)

P.S.

Oh yes, the article:

The US government is creating a permanent agency tasked with the rapid
consolidation of US control in countries targeted by Washington for
military aggression. That was President George W. Bush’s essential
message in a speech delivered Wednesday to a Republican audience in
Washington.

He announced that his administration is proposing $100 million in
funding in next year’s budget for a new “conflict response” fund and
$24 million for a new Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization within
the State Department. This office is to include an “Active Response
Corps” made up of government foreign affairs specialists, as well as
private consultants and contractors.

Bush wrapped this new initiative in the mantle of democracy. “We are
seeing a rise of a new generation whose hearts burn for freedom—and
they will have it,” he declared. What they will really have, however,
and what the US administration is preparing, is more war.

The president picked a sympathetic audience for unveiling his plan: the
International Republican Institute, a constituent part of the National
Endowment for Democracy. The NED was created more than 20 years ago to
use the Republican Party, the Democrats, big business and the AFL-CIO
labor bureaucracy as conduits for funding that previously was provided
covertly by the CIA to destabilize foreign governments or promote
US-backed movements.

The title of the new agency, “Reconstruction and Stabilization,”
obviously presupposes acts of destruction and destabilization, which
are to be carried out by its counterparts in the Pentagon and American
intelligence.

full: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/bush-m21.shtml

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