PERSIAN GULF REALITIES

The plans for a New World Order (NWO) appear to be moving along as scheduled. That is, perhaps there is no day-to-day calendar per se, but an unwritten yet generally agreed upon schedule of events has been ordering global events for decades. For example, take a 1997 Foreign Affairs article entitled “Persian Gulf Myths,” by Graham E. Fuller and Ian O. Lesser (May/June 1997, vol 76, no 3, p.42-52). In 1997 Fuller was “a senior political analyst at RAND and a former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA.” Lesser, in 1997, was “a former member of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department” and “a senior political analyst at RAND.” Current Persian Gulf realities are the results of much of the thinking, strategies and policies of these and other Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) members.

In the late 90s Fuller and Lesser were confident that “No military power today has the capability to deny the West access to oil…” They reminded their readers that “No anti-American dictator in the Middle East…has attempted to hinder oil sales to the West.” Remember when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990? Fuller and Lesser believe that oil did not play a major role in the U.S. intervention that followed. They say “the real stakes were larger: U.S. leadership and global order.” Once again we read of U.S. forces being used to maintain the global order. Remember too, that was the time when President George H. W. Bush uttered the famous confession or revelation of plans for a NWO.

During the 90s the Pentagon was paying out “between $30 billion and $60 billion a year for defense of the Gulf.” Was this defense of the Gulf for oil? It’s doubtful since during the same period the U.S. was importing only about $30 billion worth of oil. Fuller and Lesser comment that this amounted to a “hidden gasoline tax” on Americans, because other nations were not contributing to that same defense. Why would the U.S. do this? Fuller and Lesser suggest “In the eyes of some, the U.S. military presence in the Gulf is part of a broader strategy of access and pre-positioning for potential U.S. intervention worldwide consistent with their vision of America’s role as global security arbiter.” Global security arbiter? Where in the U.S. Constitution is our government authorized to secure the world? The government is to provide for our nation’s common defense, yes, but global security?

So what has the U.S. government been doing in the Gulf over the years? The U.S. has been pursuing goals of regional stability and “political maturity and responsible government” for the Gulf. This means, as Fuller and Lesser suggest, that “liberalization is a prerequisite.” This is a polite way of saying the U.S. is making the region ready for a Western style democracy with leaders sympathetic to the West that will be ripe for NWO control. Don’t forget that many of the younger generation of Persian Gulf leaders have been educated in the West and therefore also influenced by Western democracies. Over a decade ago the U.S. had identified Iran as “one of the chief threats to global security.” Again, the concern over global security. The bottom line goal would appear to be to have the entire region integrated into the NWO, with the consent of the people of the region. Fuller and Lesser go on to say that “if Washington and Europe are ever to reach consensus on global strategic partnership and sharing of responsibility, the Gulf is arguably the best place to start because the stakes are recognizably high.” Especially high stakes for Americans since Europe consumes more Gulf oil than the U.S.

How long will it take the Persian Gulf region to join the club? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, American lives will continue to be lost, American tax dollars will continue to be spent, all for the purpose of bringing the Gulf region into “the club of like-minded states with shared values—the only sound basis for long-term security worldwide.” Again, global security—not liberty—is the goal of the NWO for the Gulf states, and the plan continues to move along as scheduled.