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Market Liberalism, International Order, and World Peace, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 In this Post–Cold War epoch the world is desperately searching for international order, global peace, and general economic prosperity. The great debate going on around the world is whether these desired goals can be attained through the existing system of national sovereignty or whether they require the establishment of international political organizations with the delegated power to impose order and peace and to plan and regulate for global material prosperity. The nation-state and world-governing authorities are seen as the two alternatives confronting the human race. The 20th century was a horrible nightmare, the consequence of political and economic nationalism run wild. Human beings in the tens of millions have been crushed on the altar of the nation-state. Wars and civil wars have brought in ...

The Neocon War on Peace and Freedom, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 In their book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, David Frum and Richard Perle’s attitude towards civilian casualties shines through in their brief discussion of the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003. During the first Gulf War, the United States intentionally destroyed Iraq’s infrastructure. A 1995 analysis in a U.S. Air Force magazine approvingly noted that as a result of U.S. bombing and the subsequent shutdown of water-purification and sewage-treatment plants, “epidemics of gastroenteritis, cholera, and typhoid broke out, leading to perhaps as many as 100,000 civilian deaths and a doubling of the infant mortality rate.” By the end of the 1990s, the infant-morality rate in Iraq was triple prewar levels. Denis Halliday, the UN administrator of the oil-for-food program, resigned in 1998 and denounced the sanctions as “nothing less than ...

JFK’s Peace Speech Got Him Killed

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Yesterday, June 10, was the anniversary date of President John F. Kennedy’s famous “Peace Speech” at American University in 1963, which was about five months before he was assassinated in Dallas. It was that speech — specifically, the vision set forth in that speech — that got him killed. The speech set forth a vision that Kennedy had for the future direction of America that directly conflicted with the vision that the U.S. national-security establishment had for the future direction of the country. It was that conflict of visions that led to the war that broke out between Kennedy and the national-security establishment, a war that the latter would win on the streets of Dallas. The war actually stretched back to the Bay of Pigs crisis in 1961, when JFK threatened to tear the CIA to pieces and scatter them to the winds for lying to Kennedy in the ...