Bush backs UN global disarmament drive.In his classified 1962 report A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor (and Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. member) Lincoln P. Bloomfield described internationally mandated national disarmament as the "sine qua non [Latin, Without which not.] A description of a requisite or condition that is indispensable. In the law of torts, a causal connection exists between a particular act and an injury when the injury would not have arisen but " (indispensable condition) of a UN-dominated world order. By invading and occupying Iraq to enforce UN disarmament decrees, the Bush administration advanced that long-standing objective. President Bush's February 14 radio address outlined a proposal intended to be another step toward a world "effectively controlled" by the UN. "Last fall at the United Nations I proposed a new Security Council resolution requiring all states to criminalize crim·i·nal·ize tr.v. crim·i·nal·ized, crim·i·nal·iz·ing, crim·i·nal·iz·es 1. To impose a criminal penalty on or for; outlaw. 2. To treat as a criminal. proliferation, enact strict export controls and secure all sensitive materials within their borders," stated the president. "I urge the council to pass these measures quickly." Mr. Bush cited the case of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, who shared nuclear secrets with Iran, Libya and North Korea, to illustrate the urgency of his proposal, which builds on the administration's Proliferation Security Initiative The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is an international effort led by the United States to interdict transfer of banned weapons and weapons technology. The PSI is primarily focused on combating proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials. (PSI) announced last year. Note that Mr. Bush's statement assumes that the UN has the authority to require certain action by nation-states--in other words, that it already exercises some degree of "effective control" over the world. The Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Monitor observed that the president "received high marks" from global arms enthusiasts for his supposedly uncharacteristic embrace of UN-centered multilateral action. But at the same time, the administration's proposals will encounter opposition "because they do not require the United States and allied nations with nuclear weapons to reciprocate re·cip·ro·cate v. re·cip·ro·cat·ed, re·cip·ro·cat·ing, re·cip·ro·cates v.tr. 1. To give or take mutually; interchange. 2. To show, feel, or give in response or return. v. for the restrictions that Bush wants to impose on states that seek such weapons," commented the Washington Post. Accordingly, President Bush's PSI would, in principle, require that our nation also submit to international control of our nuclear arsenal--just as the Bloomfield blueprint called for more than four decades ago. |
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