The New Cold War And Things People Don’t Want To Mention

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=137412

HURRIYET- The fight against terror has changed colors. Now the things I want to explain may seem like conspiracy theories, but I don’t give credit to such theories. This month there was a development that got my attention. The fight against terror is changing. It isn't the struggle for security by counteracting terrorists that we used to know. Its name is the cold war. This concept didn't come from me. The following is a quote from a conference on 'The US Approach to the Fight Against Terror' from a recently retired US general who served in Afghanistan: ‘In the old Cold War, we mobilized our ideology against Communism. The new cold war is the war of values. This is the fight to spread our democratic values.’ He stressed that the duty of the military is not limited to the fight against terror, but also includes the ability to change public opinion, and to help draw up political, economic, and social programs for the future. Despite the mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq, those wars gave a good lesson, including the concept of the new cold war.

There's no doubt that a new discussion had begun among world leaders. We ordinary people thought that the Cold War disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But now the neocons in the US are trying to create another bipolar world. On the one side there are the values of the West and others, and on the other side the values of the East, with the radical Islamists. The danger here is that this list doesn’t include just Osama bid Laden and his allies, but it is very long. For example some even include Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as seen in Frank Gaffney column last year in The Washington Times. If it was only a few conservatives using the term ‘Islamic fascism,’ then it wouldn't be taken seriously, but US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney started to use this concept when talking about the conflicts in Palestine and Iraq. US President George W. Bush also started to use it after the terror plot last week. Blair also joined this choir.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the following in his speech in Los Angeles on Aug. 1: ‘The fight against terror is a global war for global values. The aim of this war it to make Islam more modern in its internal and external relations. This war is about showing that our system of values is stronger than theirs. The Israel question is a part of the broad struggle for the essence of the region.’

[antigone382]

1. Considering the increasingly frigid relations between the U.S. and Russia,

I'm no longer totally sure that the first Cold War is quite as finished as we thought it was. How sad, to think the direction the world could have gone in if only for a different person sitting in the Oval Office.

[calimary]

2. Probably to give contradicta something to do with her obsolete

"expertise." :eyes:

[EFerrari]

3. Back to the future.

:(