The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 24
Quotations from Sermons with the passage of time these will become more obvious and pronounced, and future generations will read with horror and abomination that a so-called civilised nation could commit and condone such dark and wicked deeds. The United States must see itself as others see it and take great care to avoid becoming the moral outcast of the 20th century. " (February 22, 1991) "One good aspect of the U. S. in Vietnam war was that this time it did not go around with a begging bowl for financial support to wage a war. In Vietnam, the U. S. spent $120 billion to fight that war for eight and a half years, and for this it relied entirely on its own resources. $120 billion is a vast sum. But the present war is being waged entirely on foreign money - money collected from other parties. When such an example has been set of waging a war that is entirely financed by others, there remains no guarantee of world peace. It is as if, the United States has leased out its armed forces. It smacks of a mercenary force. That could mean that the destiny of poor countries will be solely in the hands of the rich ones. The rich and the powerful nations can demand contributions and financial resources from the poor ones and hire mercenaries to wage war on them, killing, maiming and destroying them. This precedent is indeed dangerous. Besides, an element of greed is associated with this type of war. When its results are made known, the other European nations too, will be motivated to reap benefits by waging a similar war. Great havoc and damage has been inflicted on Iraq and Kuwait. The U. S. has been paid vast sums of money to bring about such destruction, 24