· The use of force without UN security council authorisation when "immediate action is needed to protect large numbers of human beings".
In a swift stroke we are to tolerate the entire demise of international law to protect WHAT large number of human beings?
Big Brother is here! The borg is being created! You are either with us or against us!! The propaganda has been catapaulted to its logical extension!! A guy with a pacemaker, having had 3 heart operations already, guilty of war crimes and the deaths of MILLIONS of people will now circumvent the entire apparatus of the United Nations == and the rulings of the International Court. There is no snark to express my disdain ...
In the wake of the latest row over military performance in Afghanistan, touched off when the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, said some allies could not conduct counter-insurgency, the five senior figures at the heart of the western military establishment also declare that Nato's future is on the line in Helmand province.
"Nato's credibility is at stake in Afghanistan," said Van den Breemen.
"Nato is at a juncture and runs the risk of failure," according to the blueprint.
Robert Gates, over a game of golf maybe, with Dick Cheney discuss this:
"How do WE get NATO, which we stuck with a monumental task of pacifying Afghanistan (never been done before on the history of the planet), having defied international laws and covenents ("black sites" in place nicely now), having set up NATO for a mission for which it had no experience; having ensured that that the heroin trade is flourishing these days; how do we the NATO commanders to attack one another and turn to US for advice??"
Naumann delivered a blistering attack on his own country's performance in Afghanistan. "The time has come for Germany to decide if it wants to be a reliable partner." By insisting on "special rules" for its forces in Afghanistan, the Merkel government in Berlin was contributing to "the dissolution of Nato".
Partnership with the most violence nation to have hit the planet trumps international law and the rule of LAW. Merkel must have sure ticked off Dubya when she rejected his advances and didn't like the "neck rub" at the G-8 summit, eh?
Who is running this world!! Elected citizens or NATO commanders? Dick Cheney, Robert Gates, George Bush, Condeleeza Rice or the other billions of people who inhabit it that would have DEMOCRACY. Read this article in its entirety and tell me where you see the world democracy ONCe. We 've entered the age of resource wars, plain and simple and this Guardian article is its PR announcment to the press and to YOU. They want new rules of engagement, based on their limited tactics and logistics that have brought us to this sorry pass.
I've heard the bs streaming from the mouth of Canada's NATO commander. Now we have the latest mess with Gates statements that NATO isn't doing it's job - it's caused a ruckus here, too.
Canada is "accomodating" US military demands and bullying because it doesn't not wish to see it's economy sacked and has deferred to Big Brother to keep up its treasury reserve in this very rocky economic season to come. The above link show you how the Canadian government used dollars brought in to assuage the press - they're making us MONEY!! But Canada, the Netherlands, Germany take this warning - there is nothing written in stone that says this empire will last!!
On Friday, US President George W Bush tapped Army General David McKiernan as the new commander for NATO's international forces in Afghanistan. If confirmed by the US Senate, McKiernan would relieve General Dan McNeill, who has headed the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) since February. The rotation of NATO commander is ongoing. I don't think it is a streeeeeeeeeeeetch to say that Washington is heavily reliant at using Cheney's "keep em unstable" and "playing all sides against the middle" tactics. This latest NATO announcement is proof that it works!!
So let's bring in the think (or don't) tanks, guys paid vast sums fo money to to the global war on terror hype and see what they have to say, shall we?
Ron Asmus, head of the German Marshall Fund thinktank in Brussels and a former senior US state department official, described the manifesto as "a wake-up call". "This report means that the core of the Nato establishment is saying we're in trouble, that the west is adrift and not facing up to the challenges."
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