Wars for World Government
by John F. McManus
Once again, the world is witnessing the use of war by unprincipled rulers for the purpose of enhancing power. Whatever else can be said about wars, they provide a powerful impetus for an explosion of government powers, the centralization of those powers, and the restriction of fundamental freedoms. The overriding goal of most of the 20th century's war-makers has been the creation of a world government led by determined megalomaniacs. To make sense of this century's frequent horrifying carnage, consider the machinations of the elitists who want to rule the world.According to their own 1911 minutes, for example, Carnegie Foundation leaders openly advocated war as the most certain way "to alter the life of an entire people." The world was soon told that a single assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 caused World War I. But how did the United States get involved in what was entirely a European problem? The answer lies in the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania, which cost the lives of 1,200 innocent civilians, many of them Americans.
British author Colin Simpson convincingly demonstrated in his 1972 expose, The Lusitania, that the ship's destruction had been arranged by British authorities who expected that the American people would support our nation's entry into the already-underway struggle. Lord Mersey, who headed the British government's post-disaster inquiry, eventually concluded that it was "a damned dirty business."
Before World War I ended, President Wilson issued his call for global governance under the League of Nations. When the U.S. Senate declined to compromise our nation's sovereignty by acquiescing in Wilson's dream, America's behind-the-scenes planners created the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 to build support for a future try at world government.
Extremely onerous reparations demanded of Germany after World War I assured the emergence of a Hitler. In the Pacific, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's acts actually goaded the Japanese into attacking our nation. This magazine and numerous books have confirmed that Mr. Roosevelt and his top aides had certain knowledge that Japanese planes were on their way to Pearl Harbor, but did not notify our forces on the scene. In response to Japan's attack, Congress declared war on Japan. Germany, Japan's ally, then declared war on the U.S.
All during World War II, world government planners busily constructed the United Nations, the second try at world government. In January 1945, seven months before the war in the Pacific ended, General Douglas MacArthur transmitted a comprehensive Japanese surrender proposal to President Roosevelt who completely ignored it. By mid-August, Japan's surrender was accepted under essentially the same conditions its leaders had previously offered. By then, of course, atomic bombs had been dropped on helpless Japanese civilians and the cries for the international rule of law under the new United Nations completely drowned out any contrary view.
In 1949, Secretary of State Dean Acheson led the parade for the creation of NATO, a regional alliance he openly claimed was "designed to fit precisely into the framework of the United Nations." One year later, the Korean War found American forces fighting a no-win, undeclared war under the UN flag. Asked the source of his authority to send troops to Korea, President Truman responded, "If I can send troops to NATO, I can send them to Korea."
Acheson later recalled that he and like-minded enthusiasts for world government had become concerned about a rising tide of opposition to internationalism. But, he gloated, the crisis in Korea "came along and saved us." Yes indeed, it saved the internationalist cause, but it surely didn't save the 55,000 Americans who were killed in that terrible conflict.
America's forces were dispatched into a second no-win, undeclared war in Vietnam under the aegis of SEATO, a NATO clone. President Lyndon Johnson and top Administration officials forthrightly admitted in 1966 that SEATO "was designed as a collective defense arrangement under Article 51 of the UN Charter" and that everything our forces were doing was being "reported to the Security Council."
More recently, President Bush's response to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait included his calls for a "new world order" that he said would lead to "a reinvigorated United Nations." He immediately went to the UN for authorization to build that new world order.
Now we have U.S. forces under NATO command waging another undeclared war in Yugoslavia. Only if the goals of the world government advocates are understood does this strange and disconcerting war make any sense.
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