The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 362
Sampli11g of public opi11io11 011 the Gulf War After the first day of the opening air offensive, a U. S. communique proudly announced that the tonnage of explosives already dropped on Iraq exceeded the explosive power of the A bomb dropped on Hiroshima. To make such an announcement with pride is to be deaf to the word Hiroshima, as it is understood by most of those alive on this earth. The deafness meant not hearing any voice raised to express any grief or claim which did not celebrate Desert Storm: and the code name already had a deafness at its centre. The war over, is there reason to suppose that the victors will start listening? I am tempted to believe that only the defeat of the victors may one day bring back their hearing. When I say this, I am thinking of those with power, not of those for whom the pouches were prepared. The deafness of power is of course, the mother and father of all terrorist movements. . . . . . . " (By John Berger) The Daily Dawn Karachi Pakistan "New World Order" Noam Chomsky, Professor of Modem languages and linguistic at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, looking towards the millennium, spell out the central message from the White House: "We are the masters and you shine our shoes. " "These are the admiring, words of the reporter who released the policy review, then quoting the hero himself: "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all. " The Turkish "peacemaker" were also authorised to intensify their repression of Kurds, in partial payments for their services. Plainly, we have here a man who should be lauded for rare principle as he leads us to a New World Order. The principles of the policy review were followed through out the Gulf crisis. In July, Bush indicated that he had no objections to Iraq's rectifying its border disputes with Kuwait by force, or intimidating its neighbours to raise the price of oil. In such ways, the ground was prepared for the merciless slaughter that a leading Third World journal describes as "the most cowardly ever fought on this planet. " The corpses have quickly disappeared 362