British Writer Calls for ‘Regime Change’ in U.S., Calls it ‘Rogue State’
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| “Washington
has showed itself determined to enforce its hegemony, come what
may,” says Hamilton |
LONDON,
August 9 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The Independent’s
Adrian Hamilton criticized the United States Friday, August 9, as a
country whose government has no majority, refuses arms monitoring and
locks up its opponents without trial, and called for a pre-emptive
strike against it to “save the world a heap of trouble.”
Citing
examples of historical leaders, including Genghis Khan, Napoleon and
Hitler, whose earlier containment could have spared the world millions
of lives and much destruction, Hamilton argues that U.S. President
George W. Bush did something last week to set out the parameters to
the writer’s proposed pre-emptive action.
“We
owe it to the future of civilization not to allow the world's worst
leaders to develop and deploy and therefore blackmail free countries
with the world's worst weapons,” Hamilton quoted Bush as saying last
weekend, mocking the U.S. president’s definition of such enemies of
the people as regimes intent on building up weapons of mass
destruction, oblivious of international law and U.N. resolutions,
governments who imprisoned their opponents without trial and who could
not claim democratic legitimacy at home.
“Significantly,”
said the British writer, “nowhere in the series of speeches he made
this week did Mr Bush actually name these rogue regimes. But it is
pretty clear reading the descriptions whom he must have meant. The
government which is spending by far the most on weapons of mass
destruction, and is now planning to raise its budget by an increase
greater than the total defense spending of Europe, is, of course,
based in Washington. Not only is it building an arsenal the like of
which the world has never seen, it has unilaterally withdrawn from the
treaties designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, and has
refused to accept any kind of international monitoring of its chemical
or nuclear weapons facilities.
“It
has a government in power without the legitimacy of a democratic
majority, in the hands of a coterie from a single part of the country
and clearly aiming at a dynasty of rule. Its rhetoric is one of
violent aggression against anyone seen as its enemies. Its opponents
are locked up without trial or the right to habeas corpus.”
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| “It
[U.S.] is no friend of democracy, having announced its refusal
to deal with the only two elected leaders of the Islamic world
– Khatami in Iran and Yasser Arafat in Palestine” |
There
are those who say the U.S.'s threats are greatly exaggerated, said
Hamilton, and the rhetoric of world mastery must not be confused with
a real intention of using its weaponry in defiance of international
law. True, it has a history of interfering with and invading its
neighbors – Panama, Grenada, Haiti et al. But since the long and
debilitating war in Vietnam, it has kept largely to its own region.
The
U.S. has a peculiarly obnoxious regime, ready to poison its own people
with corrupt capitalism and deregulated pollution, he said. “But
give it time, and pressure from the outside world, and it will pay up
its U.N. dues, rejoin the nuclear proliferation pacts and the Kyoto
treaty and start behaving as a responsible member of the community
again.”
“Washington
has showed itself determined to enforce its hegemony, come what
may,” Hamilton added. “It has shown itself ready to use weapons of
aerial bombardment that make no discrimination between combatants and
civilians, to show precious little remorse when it is guilty of
‘mistakes.’
“It
is no friend of democracy, having announced its refusal to deal with
the only two elected leaders of the Islamic world – Khatami in Iran
and Yasser Arafat in Palestine, the latter the only Arab leader ever
elected with western observers checking the process. The country has
armed and succored state terrorism and assassination by the Israelis.
It has installed the worst sort of warlord gangsters in Afghanistan
and, according to ‘intelligence’, been party to upsetting [albeit
briefly] the elected president of Venezuela. The world cannot afford
to await its next move.”
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