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Date Posted: 08:11:50 05/20/02 Mon
Author: Russ Stein
Subject: Wolfowitz and the Consolidated World State
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Wolfowitz and the Consolidated World State
by Russ Stein

During the first Bush administration, the leaking of a foreign policy memo by top Pentagon bureaucrat Paul Wolfowitz caused a sensation, and a firestorm of criticism. Asserting that US security requires that the United States tolerate no rivals to its global dominance, Wolfowitz wrote, "the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power."
Wolfowitz is currently the deputy defense secretary in the Bush administration, and as far as I know, has never retracted or repudiated these words.
Think about Wolfowitz's unstated assumptions for a minute. One assumption is that a large, resource rich region is necessary for a power "to generate global power." Another assumption is that global power requires that the region be under the "consolidated control" of a dominant power, which means a dominant government, in foreign-policy speak. Yet another unstated assumption is that America has global power.
America obviously does have global power. From every two-bit banana republic in the world, the supplicants come begging: for US favor, US approval, and US cash. Every party to every impossible and incomprehensible conflict in the world does PR in DC, influencing our media, swaying our policies, and diverting our attention from our own business.
But who really has it? I don't have any global power. Do you?
Inadvertently, the Wolfowitz memo provides us with stunning glimpse into the real worldview of our ruling federal class in DC. We the people are a "resource." That's right: your money, your work, your business, your family, your property � they're all just resources, under "consolidated control," mind you, that fuel the global power enjoyed by our "dominant" rulers. And the vast, beautiful, temperate, rich land of the North American continent where we live? That's the region with the requisite resources for generating the global power of our government.
If you thought we were a free and independent, self-governing people, with a weak, divided, limited government of strictly enumerated powers � you were wrong.
At the core of the original America was an idea called federalism, which is totally incompatible with Wolfowitz's ideas. If federalism had been taken seriously, it could have saved us from falling under the "consolidated control" of a dominant federal government, and saved us from the burden of a ruling class with global power.
March 16, 2002
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