The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 365
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order Israel, has simply ignored U. N. resolutions demandi ng the withdrawal of Israeli troops from their 23-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Similarly, in 1986, the U. S flatly refused to abide by the World Court's decision to stop its Contra war and to pay reparations to the Sandinista government. *This conflict is not even about protecting innocent people from atrocities carried out by brutal military dictators or others. The students quickly realized the U. S. has never backed away from supporting leaders with the most abysmal of human rights records Marcos in the Philippines, Samoi. a in Nicaragua, or Pinochet in Chile. The list is almost endless. Coalition members, President Hafez Assad, of Syria, is the latest embarrassment. The students "'discovered" as well that U. S. gulf policy has little to do with a consistent opposition to chemical weapons or nuclear proliferation. Over the years, the U. S has "staunchly opposed treaties controlling the production of chemical weapons" The U. S has shown little if any concern about nations it approves of, such as Israel, having nuclear weapons. What's more, the U. S. has consistently and steadfastly refused to sign any treaty aimed at ending the testing of even more nuclear weapons. Its latest refusal came virtually on the eve of unleashing the present high-tech blitl. krieg against Iraq. The student's research is correct. It highlights the abysmal hypocrisy of the loud claims to righteousness of the U. S. Canada and the rest. In an interview in the Jan 7 issue of Time Magazine- the one with the remarkable double exposure shot of the two faces of George Bush on the cover under the, "Men of the Year" - Bush, speaking o f his domestic policies, said: "We have the kinder, gentler approach. It is catching on. They used to laugh about the thousand points of light. . . . " There are 10,000 "points of light" raini ng down on the civilian population of Iraq every 24 hours from U. S and other coalition planes. They are bringing death and destruction to innocent people. 365