to be held in Brazil, the ecological fanatics of the New World Order are raising the
demand that the Amazon region be placed under international environmentalist
trusteeship so as to preserve the rain forest. This is a favorite theme of Britain's demented
princes, Charles and Philip. The political and logistical difficulties of an armed
confrontation are obvious enough, but this operation would possess the absolute novelty
of marketability as an international police action in the name of saving the planet from
the rapacity of the nation state and its associated business interests. /P>
MALAYSIA. The government of Dr. Mahatir Mohammed has long been a thorn in the
flesh of the Anglo-Americans because of its vigorous rejection of Malthusian doctrine
and its committment to demographic and industrial growth. Recently Dr. Mahatir
advanced the proposal of an Asia economic community that would include Japan but
exclude the United States and Canada. This was seen as an immediate casus belli by the
State Department, which in the meantime has coerced Japan into rejecting the idea. More
recently, Malaysia has been seeking to procure relatively advanced weaponry of Soviet
manufacture, eliciting the inevitable hue and cry of the Anglo-Americans. Anglo-
American propaganda is now developing the theme that expert nuclear scientists from the
Soviet Union and the other former Warsaw Pact states are now hiring themselves out as
mercenaries to unscrupulous and aggressive third world regimes, posing the incalculable
danger of nuclear proliferation. Here is a made-to-order way of picking a fight with any
third world nation seeking the benefits of peaceful nuclear energy.
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER USSR. A symposium of the Council on
Foreign Relations held in the autumn of 1990 analyzed the ongoing breakup of the Soviet
Union and speculated on the possible introduction of US military forces into what is
today Soviet territory. [fn 7] One possible rationale cited for such an incursion would be a
failure of the Soviet central government to maintain control over Moscow's strategic
nuclear forces, with the attendant risk of many-sided proliferation. Another scenario
foresaw a possible civil war in the Russian republic and/or the Ukraine, pitting "red
fascists" against democratic forces, and possibly spreading beyond the borders of the
former USSR. Still another variant would see US forces intervening to protect "western-
linked ethnic groups" such as Jews or Armenians from massacres. The requirements for
such an "Operation Steppe Storm" are now under study. From the point of view of Bush's
immediate political needs, the problem with these scenarios are that they tend to be
determined by the evolution of the Soviet internal crisis, and are therefore difficult to
time.
This list of possible targets cannot be complete, since there are groups of arrogant,
vicious yuppies in business suits not just in the White House, but throughout the
executive departments and agencies, who are developing new variations on these themes
every day. The general idea should be clear. The risks inherent in all of these options
ought to obvious enough, but they are perhaps less obvious to Bush, who has been
remarkably lucky in his first two adventures.
LIBYA. In late November, 1991, ***** Barr, Bush's newly installed Attorney General,
announced indictments of certain individuals identified by the Justice Department as