Saturday, October 20, 2001
MOSCOW — The U.S.-led international coalition against terror must become a coalition for a new and fair world order if it is to succeed, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview published Saturday.
"If the fight against terrorism is reduced to force actions, the world will eventually lose," Gorbachev told Rossiiskaya Gazeta. "If it becomes part of joint efforts to build a just world order, everybody shall win, including those who today are not supporting the U.S. actions and the coalition."
He urged politicians to remember the notions of solidarity and said developing nations must be helped to overcome poverty. The U.N. Security Council, he added, should take the initiative in developing corresponding programs.
Nuclear and chemical disarmament and control over the remaining stockpiles must become a top priority, he said.
Gorbachev also noted that despite Russia's strong support for the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan, many in his country are concerned about the bombings and question whether America would also back Russia in such an hour of need.
Such thorny issues as the expansion of NATO and the future of the U.S.-Soviet anti-missile agreement "would be easier to resolve when we have a joint strategy of moving to the new world community," Gorbachev wrote.
As Soviet leader, Gorbachev presided over the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, which ended a humiliating 10-year involvement during which his country lost more than 15,000 soldiers.
He remains respected in the West for initiating the reforms in the former Soviet Union but is widely despised at home, where he is blamed for the Soviet collapse and the often chaotic years of transition.
US ABM aimed against Russia, China nuclear forces
Plans to deploy the United States antiballistic missile (ABM) system attest to its being spearheaded against Russia's and China's nuclear forces, Major-General Yuri Lebedev, an expert of the international organisation Generals and Admirals for Peace and Security, told RCAAM, commenting on the statement on the Pentagon spokesman about the readiness of the U.S. military to put weapons into space.
The general said creation of space-based ABM elements shows that the Pentagon is planning to intercept and destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) during amassed attacks which can hypothetically be launched only by two nuclear powers, Russia and China.
The decision of the U.S. administration to create sea-based and air-based mobile elements of ABM defense is another conformation of the fact that the U.S. ABM is not meant against the still nonexistent missiles of "rogue" countries and against accidental launchings of Russian missiles. The U.S. side seems to forget that the deployment of such forces is prohibited under the operating 1972 ABM treaty, Lebedev believes.
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There is a Gorbatchev rhetoric about the US poluting the whole Earth with space based nukes in additional articles (all of which can ironicaly be accessed in anotherwise restricted site)http://rcaam.milparade.com/0105.htm. Russians are appealing to peace nicks and eco-terrorists as usual.
With the leadership of Russia and China, we are encouraged to lose our moral confidence via abortions, gay rights, EPA madness and what not other forms of humanism, and by the same token we are made to lose moral confidence in the usage of arms, technology and the right to bear arms in general.
Russia and China are wrong to believe that a weak USA will shelter them. There is nothing further than the truth. A strong almost unipolar moraly confident USA is the basis of stability in this world today. THere is no protection from the wrath of the heavens or of rogue states aside from militarisation of outer space and free transparent developments. Ironicaly Russia and China are anything but transparent, yet they claim that they do not trust the US. After all, Kosovo was horrible, but it was no subversive effort, the equations were very clear as ugly as Rambouillet was.
The bottom line is this: NATO and the UN are the leading institutions that lack any moral confidence and which attempt to replace anti-humanist pro-liberty moral with an alphabet soup of feel good humanist organisations. All power balances are removed in favor of subserviance to this god, this pagan fetish, the human feeling and psyche.
But there won't be any protection for fools. Sooner or later, this Earth that we venerate amongst other gods venerated by Gorbatchev, will stab us in the back and we will die, unprepared to counter the powers of a cold natural world, because we werer afraid of testing our morality, we were humanist losers.