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法秩序を越える
主権国家に対して先制攻撃かけたり
政権の転覆を図る行為でもたらされた「平和」は、
強国による押し売りの平和にほかならない。
The new American century?
Have you heard about the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)? This neoconservative think tank was established in 1997 "to promote American global leadership." The idea is that with the demise of the Soviet Union, no country or alliance of countries in the world can rival America's power. America's strategy should be to keep things that way by maintaining "a globally preeminent military capacity both today and in the future." In this way, an "American peace" can be established over the world.
By using the expression "American peace," the PNAC members show that their model is the Pax Romana of ancient times. But the Rome that enforced its "peace" on other countries was an empire. Is PNAC proposing that America become a world empire?
If so, that would matter a great deal, for, among the founding members of PNAC are Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and Jeb Bush. In short, when George W. Bush became president, that amounted to a PNAC takeover of the White House.
In September, 2000, during the presidential election campaigns, PNAC published a report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses." Read this report and you will understand what has been going on in the world since the Bush administration came into office.
In general, the report says that U.S. military expenditure must be greatly increased, that its weapons must be modernized, and that more and stronger military bases must be established overseas, on what the report calls "the new American frontier."
Thus, as Mr. Scott T. Hards correctly pointed out on these pages (May 2), the invasion of Iraq was not about weapons of mass destruction (it seems there weren't any), or about the security of the United States (probably the war increased the danger of terrorist attacks), or links between Iraq and the al-Qaeda (none has been shown to exist). But the PNAC report shows that the invasion was not about former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein either:
"While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
In building a world empire, however, one runs into this
difficulty: Present international law does not permit such a thing. Thus in its recent wars, the United States should be understood not as simply violating international law, but as reshaping it. In the last year and a half, the U.S. government has given itself three new rights:
They are (1) the right to make pre-emptive attacks on sovereign states; (2) the right to change the regimes of sovereign states; and (3) the right to send police and/or CIA agents into foreign territory, arrest foreign nationals and imprison them on U.S. territory.
Note that neither the United Nations nor any other country has any of these rights. Taken together, they amount to the right to assert political control over foreign lands. In political terminology, the accurate name for such control is empire.
Shukan ST: May 23, 2003
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- Project for the New American Century(PNAC)
- 「新しいアメリカの世紀のためのプロジェクト」
- neoconservative think tank
- ネオコン(新保守主義)系シンクタンク
- promote
- 推進する
- demise
- 消滅
- alliance of countries
- 国家連合
- rival
- 対抗する
- strategy
- 戦略
- keep things that way
- アメリカに対抗できる国がない状態を保つ
- preeminent
- 図抜けた
- military capacity
- 軍事力
- Pax Romana
- 「ローマによる平和」( 古代ローマ帝国支配下の平和)
- enforced
- 押し付けた
- (Is)proposing
- 企てる
- matter a great deal
- 大変なことになる
- Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and Jeb Bush
- チェイニー副大統領、ラムズフェルド国防長官、ウォルフォウィッツ国防副長官、アブラムス国家安全保障会議部長、ブッシュ・フロリダ州知事( 現大統領の実弟)
- amounted to 〜
- 〜に等しかった
- takeover
- 乗っ取り
- presidential election campaigns
- 大統領選挙戦
- Rebuilding
- 増強
- administration
- 政権
- military expenditure
- 軍事費
- weapons of mass destruction
- 大量破壊兵器
- none has been shown to exist
- その証拠は何も示されていない
- unresolved
- 未解決の
- conflict
- 紛争
- immediate justification
- さしあたって正当化するもの
- substantial
- 大規模な
- presence
- 駐留
- transcends 〜
- 〜より重要だ
- regime
- 政権
- runs into 〜
- 〜に直面する
- international law
- 国際法
- violating
- 違反する
- reshaping
- 作り直す
- pre-emptive attacks
- 先制攻撃
- sovereign states
- 主権国家
- police
- 治安部隊
- 〜 and/or 〜
- 〜と〜のどちらか、または両方。
- foreign nationals
- 外国人
- imprison
- 投獄する
- Note that 〜
- 〜に注目してください
- neither 〜 nor 〜
- 〜も〜もない
- Taken together
- 一緒にすれば
- assert
- 行使する
- terminology
- 専門用語