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The National Defense Strategy of the USA ( NDS ) has been released by the Pentagon and you can see Cheney and Rumsfeld's paranoid fingerprints all over it.
It is a chilling justification for preemptive war with unlimited and uncontested Presidential authority. It is a revolutionary text, in that it explicitly overthrows the principle of national sovereignty, upon which international relations have been based for many centuries.
It's overriding theme is "America is at war" -- and the war will be endless "
Henry Adams, United for Peace of Pierce County (WA), summarizes the 10,426-word plan for global empire which could have been written by Hitler in the 1930's.
Excerpt: " The NDS has fully assimilated the doctrine that the president has unlimited powers under the commander-in-chief clause of the U.S. Constitution, though the Constitution (for the purpose of upholding of which the U.S. military officially exists) and Congress are never mentioned; instead, the operational doctrine is: "if the President so decides "........the NDS seems chillingly to allude to a common military euphemism for torture ("setting the conditions for interrogation") when it says: "At the direction of the President, we will defeat adversaries at the time, place, and in the manner of our choosing setting the conditions for future security."
Allen L Roland
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
By Henry Adams
United for Peace of Pierce County (WA)
March 22, 2005
The March 2005 "National Defense Strategy of the United States of America" (NDS), whose ostensible purpose is to guide the Quadrennial Defense Review, is a revolutionary text, in that it explicitly overthrows the principle of national sovereignty, upon which international relations have been based for many centuries.
The principle of sovereignty is the principle upon which the United Nations (unmentioned in the NDS) is based. Article 2, Section 1 of the Charter of the United Nations states: "The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members." (http://www.yaleedu/lawweb/avalon/un/unchart.htm) But the NDS states: "It is unacceptable for regimes to use the principle of sovereignty as a shield behind which they claim to be free to engage in activities that pose enormous threats to their citizens, neighbors, or the rest of the international community."
The grounds the NDS offers for this revolutionary proclamation are familiar ones: "the potential proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." This means, the document explains, that "great dangers may arise in and emanate from relatively weak states and ungoverned areas."
Additional dangers the document foresees: enemies who seek "to terrorize our population and destroy our way of life," or try to "limit our global freedom to act," or aim to "dominate key regions," or "attempt to make prohibitive the costs of meeting various U.S. international commitments."
Faced with such "threats," the NDS commits the U.S. to "an active defense of the nation and its interests," which is a euphemism for aggression, by "securing strategic access to key regions, lines of communication, and the global commons," which are euphemisms for resource-rich regions.
The NDS is not without its amusing aspects. For example, in a paragraph in Section I.B. on "problem states," the Pentagon might be describing the United States when it speaks of states that "squander their resources to benefit ruling elites, their armed forces, or extremist clients. They often disregard international law and violate international agreements. Problem states may seek WMD or other destabilizing military capabilities. Some support terrorist activities, including by giving terrorists safe haven."
Another interesting aspect of the doctrine is its assertion that "the Global War on Terrorism is not a war against Islam, but rather is an outgrowth of a civil war within Islam between extremists and those who oppose them."
The intent of the NDS to substitute the war on terror for the Cold War as a justification for a generations-long struggle that legitimates the existence of the U.S. national security state is clear: "As in the Cold War, victory will come only when the ideological motivation for the terrorists' activities has been discredited and no longer has the power to motivate streams of individuals to risk and sacrifice their lives."
In other words, "America is at war" -- and the war will be endless.
The intent to attack Iran in the coming months is signaled in this passage: "Prevention might require the use of force to disable or destroy WMD in the possession of terrorists or others or to strike targets (e.g., terrorists) that directly threaten the United States or U.S. friends or other interests."
Reading the *National Defense Strategy of the United States of America* is a chilling experience. There are several passages that give one pause.
For example, Posse Comitatus would seem to be a dead letter: "At the direction of the President, the Department will undertake military missions at home."
The intention militarily to dominate outer space (oddly defined as part of the "global commons," along with international waters, airspace, and cyberspace) is spelled out: "Key goals, therefore, are to ensure our access to and use of space, and to deny hostile exploitation of space to adversaries."
The NDS has fully assimilated the doctrine that the president has unlimited powers under the commander-in-chief clause of the U.S. Constitution, though the Constitution (for the purpose of upholding of which the U.S. military officially exists) and Congress are never mentioned; instead, the operational doctrine is: "if the President so decides."
For "America is a nation at war."
Anyone inclined to object will have second thoughts in noting two passages.
First, those who appeal to international law are lumped together with terrorists in the category of those who would "challenge" (which is, by the way, one of the words most often repeated in the NDS) "our strength as a nation state," which is here a euphemism for empire.
Second, the NDS seems chillingly to allude to a common military euphemism for torture ("setting the conditions for interrogation") when it says: "At the direction of the President, we will defeat adversaries at the time, place, and in the manner of our choosing setting the conditions for future security."
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