The Whore on terror

Royal United Services Institute : Conservative National and International Security Policy Group
12:30, 18 Dec 2006 / RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET

On Monday 18th December Dame Pauline Neville-Jones (spook) and David Cameron MP will be giving a presentation on the Conservative National and International Security Policy Group’s mid term report on security-related issues in foreign and domestic policy.

The event will start at 12.30 pm and should last for no more than an hour.

See the "Our Security Challenge" website ..."The National and International Security Policy Group will examine all aspects of the UK's national security, both domestic and international. The group was set up by David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, and our recommendtions are intended to influence the course of the future Conservative policy." Where you may read ....

A new approach to foreign affairs: liberal conservatism

29th September 2006 posted in Foreign Affairs.

Speech by David Cameron MP at the annual JP Morgan lecture, British American Project - inter alia

THE CURRENT RESPONSE

Broadly, the response can be summarised as ‘neo conservatism.’ For the purposes of my argument today, we can focus on three propositions that are most commonly understood to represent the core of neo-conservative thinking.

First, a realistic appreciation of the scale of the threat the world faces from terrorism.

Second, a conviction that pre-emptive military action is not only an appropriate, but a necessary component of tackling the terrorist threat in the short term.

And third, a belief that in the medium and long term, the promotion of freedom and democracy, including through regime change, is the best guarantee of our security.

Which sounds an awful lot like "Business as usual". He did however manage to identify one simple, if self evident Truth

"the way we have tried to meet these challenges over the past 5 years has had an unintended (?) and worrying consequence.

It has fanned the flames of anti-Americanism, both here in Britain and around the world."

Which whilst it may not have been intended, it WAS forseeable .. and foreseen.

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Counting the cost... eventually

The course is charted, arrogant use of the military is all the US ruling class has to maintain its dominance. After Iraq, asymmetric warfare, "terrorism," will be directed at Americans, American institutions, American targets, and American allies. When the rest of the world recognizes how thinly spread the US military is, thinly spread physically, and economically, because it is not a sustainable institution in its current incarnation, rebellions will occur. Indeed they have already started. The response of the weakening US will be to lash out, often with unforeseeable consequences, just as the consequences of this impending invasion are unforeseeable, and unknown.

...Military might is a sign of strength, but the US military is not invincible worldwide. America's use of force as both first and last resort is a sign of profound systemic weakness. Its employment today will destabilize the world, and cause us to stumble into a Third World War: The War of Unintended Consequences.

Bush's Gang of Mad Beekeepers. Canadian Spectator March 19th 2003