Henry Jackson Society = World War Three
Editorial
A Henry Jackson Society has been established for the purpose of enacting a world revolution by force. Its principles are:
"…that liberal democracy should be spread across the world; that as the world's most powerful democracies, the United States and the European Union—under British leadership—must shape the world more actively by intervention and example; that such leadership requires political will. a commitment to universal human rights and the maintenance of a strong military with global expeditionary reach; and that too few of our leaders in Britain and the rest of Europe today are ready to play a role in the world that matches our strength."
That is from documents issued in connection with a launch in the House of Commons on 22nd November. It is a programme for a Third World War.
The over-riding issue in the world today is whether differing forms of human existence are to be tolerated, or the human race is to be made uniform whether it likes it or not and is to be made to like it.
The Henry Jackson Society has powerful backers. It expresses the world-view of the White House and Whitehall, where many of its most ardent advocates are refugees from the collapse of Communism seeking another instrument for their world-dominating aspirations. They are committed to establishing a total uniformity of the human race in a global market dominated by US/UK/EU. They are unlikely to succeed but they are capable of causing catastrophe in the course of failing.
The invasion of Iraq and the wholesale destruction of the existing mode of life there is the first step. The main article in the propaganda material for the London launch discusses how Iran can be got at next, in the light of the difficulties being experienced in Iraq. But the destruction of Iran would only bring liberal democracy to the threshold of Asia. (We are told every day that what exists in Iraq now is very much better than what existed three years ago, or twenty. There is certainly no authoritative state structure of civil order now. So why not call the chaos the formative stage of liberal democracy? That seems to be how the White House regards it.)
But, beyond Iran, the expansion of liberal democracy will certainly come up against the deterrence of nuclear weapons. And then, unless the West becomes untrue to itself and frees itself from its absolute commitment to global uniformity, the globe is likely to be very greatly disturbed.
The Irish contribution to the Henry Jackson material comes from Anthony McIntyre, who resigned from the Provos because they signed the Good Friday Agreement, declared that they had sold out the cause, demanded that they should concede defeat and surrender instead of pretending that they had gained something, denounced them as liars and cheats, and devoted himself to the cause of peace—in the Henry Jackson Society.
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