FINAL WARNING: A History of the New World Order

FINAL WARNING: Introduction

the world will be guided during my own Administration by our desire to

shape a world order that is more responsive to human aspirations. The

United States will meet its obligation to help create a stable, just, and

peaceful world order.”

Harvard professor Stanley Hoffman wrote in his book Primacy or

World Order: “What will have to take place is a gradual adaptation of

the social, economic and political system of the United States to the

imperatives of world order.”

Conservative author George Weigel, director of the Ethics and Public

Policy Center in Washington, D.C. said: “If the United States does not

unashamedly lay down the rules of world order and enforce them ...

then there is little reason to think that peace, security, freedom or

prosperity will be served.”

In a December, 1988 speech, Mikhail Gorbachev told the United

Nations: “Further global progress is now possible only through a

quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world

order.”

The man who put the New World Order in the limelight, and did more

than anyone to bring about its acceptance, was President George

Bush. In a February, 1990 fundraiser in San Francisco, Bush said:

“Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was

transformed. And in each instance, a New World Order came about

through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global

war, or its end.”

On Saturday, August 25, 1990, the United Nations Security Council

voted unanimously to allow a joint military force to use whatever

means necessary to enforce a UN blockade against the country of Iraq.

That afternoon, Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, a CFR member and former

aide to Henry Kissinger, who was the National Security Advisor to

Bush, was interviewed by Charles Bierbauer of the Cable News

Network (CNN) and used the term “a New World Order.” In August,

1990, (According to an article in the Washington Post in May, 1991) he

said: “We believe we are creating the beginning of a New World Order

coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms.” During a

September, 1990 speech at the United Nations, he announced that “we

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