Re: STATEMENT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (fwd)

Pat Gunning asks:
>Why in the world would NATO or the U.S. want to provoke China?

Bill Clinton would not want to provoke China. But what about those
elements in the Pentagon and the CIA who are bemoaning the demise of the
Cold War. it is hard to get your hands on a huge chunk of the US federal
government revenues in a world with no credible boogeyman.  And what
about the intellectual tendency represented by Political Scientist Sam
Huntington, whose Clash of Civilizations posits a new world divide
between the rational and democratic defenders of the European
Enlightenment and the anti-European Chinese and Moslems.

Maybe this is too paranoid. But the consequence of the "mistake" seems
to be the creation of a coalition in the Security Council between the
Chinese and the Russians. Now that could be a plausible boogeyman.

    I am hoping something good can come of all this in the way of a
reformation of the United Nations that can deal in a just and legitimate
way with problems of state violence and violations of human rights. In
the mean time STOP THE BOMBING.

chris chase-dunn