This Russian Has Got It *Right*.....
Feb 12th 2003 | 5:38 pm
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This Russian Has Got It *Right*.....
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/02/13/009.html
The Moscow Times
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Most Righteous War of All
By Pavel Felgenhauer The Soviet Politburo hoped that some day the
Franco-German axis, initiated by French President Charles de Gaulle some 40
years ago, would break up NATO and deliver Western Europe into Soviet hands.
In the 1960s, the West did not disintegrate. Gaullist France itself became
isolated -- neither Germany nor anyone else in Western Europe was ready to
seriously undermine solidarity with the United States in the face of tens of
thousands of Soviet tanks in Central Europe.
Today, with the old Soviet Union in ruins, France and Germany (supported by
Belgium) are ready to undermine Western military cohesion to save the
totalitarian dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and his Baath party from being
overthrown.
Of course, today Russia is too weak to seriously exploit the new rift in the
West. But many in Moscow are happy to see it happen: The dream of a
"multipolar" world seems to be materializing. France, Germany, China,
Russia, the Vatican -- i.e. all, or almost all, world centers of power with
the exception of Washington are joining forces to prevent the U.S. war
machine from rolling Hussein out of office.
It would seem strange that so diverse a collection of forces would unite to
defend a bloody Nazi-style dictatorship in Iraq. But actually this de facto
alliance has existed for decades.
In the 1930s, West European pacifists were the prime political force that
supported appeasement of Adolf Hitler. In the 1940s, the Vatican
wholeheartedly cooperated with the Nazis and after the demise of Hitler
helped war criminals to escape justice. In turn, the Nazis used
environmentalist and antiglobalist slogans to fight what they believed was
the Jewish-dominated "world plutocracy."
I lived for almost 40 years under a totalitarian regime, and I know from
first-hand experience what life without freedom means. Anti-war protesters
in Western Europe and America do not know and could not care less.
Only by military means can millions of Iraqis be released from total
servitude, and Hussein destroyed along with his Baath party that has ruled
Iraq since 1958. If there ever existed such a thing as a "just war" then the
coming U.S.-led invasion of Iraq could be the most righteous of them all.
In 1991, after a military victory and the liberation of Kuwait, allied
forces stopped short of Baghdad. A ceasefire was signed that left Hussein in
power.
It's easy to envisage a similar scenario in 1944: After the liberation of
France and Belgium, the war could have stopped at the borders of Hitler's
Reich. A ceasefire could have been signed (the Germans were at the time
actively trying to start negotiations to organize such a ceasefire). A UN
inspection team could have been deployed to destroy Hitler's ballistic
missiles and other weapons of mass destruction. Hitler and his party would
have continued to rule in Berlin and would surely have played games with UN
arms inspectors, using underground factories and so on.
Western pacifists, the Vatican and all those that today adamantly oppose the
liberation of Iraq by force would surely have liked an outcome that would
have left Hitler in power and saved many German lives and German cities. The
Germans were in fact liberated against their own will -- the majority
continued to support Hitler to the bloody end.
In April 1975, Hussein visited Moscow to ask for Soviet help to build a full
reactor to make nuclear weapons. Although Russia agreed to supply Iraq with
staggering amounts of conventional weapons, it balked at helping Baghdad go
nuclear. In September 1975, Hussein went to Paris to meet politicians with
far fewer scruples than Soviet Communists. The French prime minister at the
time, Jacques Chirac, signed an agreement to sell Hussein a reactor and
arms-grade uranium.
If Chirac and other French politicians had had their way, Hussein could have
made tens of nuclear bombs by 1990. The war to liberate Kuwait would never
have taken place or would have turned into an all-out nuclear confrontation
between Iraq, Israel and the United States. The tragedy was avoided when in
1979 Israeli agents near Toulon destroyed two French-built reactors en route
to Iraq. In 1981, the Israelis bombed to debris the French replacement
reactor in Iraq before it could be made operational.
Maybe France and Germany are so loyally trying to save Hussein because they
want to cover up their long-time cooperation in helping to build weapons of
mass destruction? Is the treachery of the past feeding more treachery today?
Pavel Felgenhauer is an independent defense analyst.
The Moscow Times
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Most Righteous War of All
By Pavel Felgenhauer The Soviet Politburo hoped that some day the
Franco-German axis, initiated by French President Charles de Gaulle some 40
years ago, would break up NATO and deliver Western Europe into Soviet hands.
In the 1960s, the West did not disintegrate. Gaullist France itself became
isolated -- neither Germany nor anyone else in Western Europe was ready to
seriously undermine solidarity with the United States in the face of tens of
thousands of Soviet tanks in Central Europe.
Today, with the old Soviet Union in ruins, France and Germany (supported by
Belgium) are ready to undermine Western military cohesion to save the
totalitarian dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and his Baath party from being
overthrown.
Of course, today Russia is too weak to seriously exploit the new rift in the
West. But many in Moscow are happy to see it happen: The dream of a
"multipolar" world seems to be materializing. France, Germany, China,
Russia, the Vatican -- i.e. all, or almost all, world centers of power with
the exception of Washington are joining forces to prevent the U.S. war
machine from rolling Hussein out of office.
It would seem strange that so diverse a collection of forces would unite to
defend a bloody Nazi-style dictatorship in Iraq. But actually this de facto
alliance has existed for decades.
In the 1930s, West European pacifists were the prime political force that
supported appeasement of Adolf Hitler. In the 1940s, the Vatican
wholeheartedly cooperated with the Nazis and after the demise of Hitler
helped war criminals to escape justice. In turn, the Nazis used
environmentalist and antiglobalist slogans to fight what they believed was
the Jewish-dominated "world plutocracy."
I lived for almost 40 years under a totalitarian regime, and I know from
first-hand experience what life without freedom means. Anti-war protesters
in Western Europe and America do not know and could not care less.
Only by military means can millions of Iraqis be released from total
servitude, and Hussein destroyed along with his Baath party that has ruled
Iraq since 1958. If there ever existed such a thing as a "just war" then the
coming U.S.-led invasion of Iraq could be the most righteous of them all.
In 1991, after a military victory and the liberation of Kuwait, allied
forces stopped short of Baghdad. A ceasefire was signed that left Hussein in
power.
It's easy to envisage a similar scenario in 1944: After the liberation of
France and Belgium, the war could have stopped at the borders of Hitler's
Reich. A ceasefire could have been signed (the Germans were at the time
actively trying to start negotiations to organize such a ceasefire). A UN
inspection team could have been deployed to destroy Hitler's ballistic
missiles and other weapons of mass destruction. Hitler and his party would
have continued to rule in Berlin and would surely have played games with UN
arms inspectors, using underground factories and so on.
Western pacifists, the Vatican and all those that today adamantly oppose the
liberation of Iraq by force would surely have liked an outcome that would
have left Hitler in power and saved many German lives and German cities. The
Germans were in fact liberated against their own will -- the majority
continued to support Hitler to the bloody end.
In April 1975, Hussein visited Moscow to ask for Soviet help to build a full
reactor to make nuclear weapons. Although Russia agreed to supply Iraq with
staggering amounts of conventional weapons, it balked at helping Baghdad go
nuclear. In September 1975, Hussein went to Paris to meet politicians with
far fewer scruples than Soviet Communists. The French prime minister at the
time, Jacques Chirac, signed an agreement to sell Hussein a reactor and
arms-grade uranium.
If Chirac and other French politicians had had their way, Hussein could have
made tens of nuclear bombs by 1990. The war to liberate Kuwait would never
have taken place or would have turned into an all-out nuclear confrontation
between Iraq, Israel and the United States. The tragedy was avoided when in
1979 Israeli agents near Toulon destroyed two French-built reactors en route
to Iraq. In 1981, the Israelis bombed to debris the French replacement
reactor in Iraq before it could be made operational.
Maybe France and Germany are so loyally trying to save Hussein because they
want to cover up their long-time cooperation in helping to build weapons of
mass destruction? Is the treachery of the past feeding more treachery today?
Pavel Felgenhauer is an independent defense analyst.
Feb 12th 2003 | 8:59 pm
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Re: This Russian Has Got It *Right*.....
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since you have nothing else to do in your pathetic little life
except crosspost crap through a number of groups which have nothing to
do with eachother, I've decided to up my standards. so up yours.
*PLONK*
BL.
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Brad Littlejohn | Email: [email protected]
Unix Systems Administrator, | [email protected]
Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead!
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