FINAL WARNING: Introduction
a revolution of the spirit and the mind and begin a journey into a ...
new age.” On October 30, 1990, Bush suggested that the UN could
help create “a New World Order and a long era of peace.”
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, said that one
of the purposes for the Desert Storm operation, was to show to the
world how a “reinvigorated United Nations could serve as a global
policeman in the New World Order.”
On December 31, 1990, Gorbachev said that the New World Order
would be ushered in by the Gulf War.
Prior to the Gulf War, on January 29, 1991, Bush told the nation in his
State of the Union address:
“What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea–
a New World Order, where diverse nations are drawn together in a
common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind;
peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world
worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future.” He
also said: “If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral
compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will
threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging New World
Order we now see, this long dreamed–of vision we’ve all worked
toward for so long.”
In a speech to the families of servicemen at Fort Gordon, Georgia on
February 1, 1991, Bush said: “When we win, and we will, we will have
taught a dangerous dictator, and any tyrant tempted to follow in his
footsteps, that the United States has a new credibility and that what we
say goes, and that there is no place for lawless aggression in the
Persian Gulf and in this New World Order that we seek to create.”
Following a February 6, 1991 speech to the Economic Club of New
York City, Bush answered a reporter’s question about what the New
World Order was, by saying: “Now, my vision of a New World Order
foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peace-keeping function.”
Bush said in a speech to the Congress on March 6, 1991: “Now, we can
see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is a very real
prospect of a New World Order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a
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