The British Empire mentality hasn't gone away

Thursday January 09, 2003 13:49

by depp

Are the British government just following US policy blindly? Do they have any schemes of their own? Of course they do....

Are the British government just following US policy blindly? Do they have any schemes of their own? Of course they do....

Quote from The Guardian, 9/1/03;
‘The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, will today make his strongest attempt yet to woo Muslim opinion for a war against Iraq during a visit to Indonesia, the most populous Muslim state in the world.
Mr Straw ……….. will plead that neither the confrontation with Iraq nor the war on terrorism should be seen as the west against Islam.
He will say: "The divide in the modern world is not the so-called 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the west. The divide is between order and chaos."(end quote)

Order v. chaos. What does he mean?

Maybe the following will explain; (quote from Tony Blair's foreign policy guru Robert Cooper April 2002);
‘In the Ancient world, order meant empire. Those within the empire had order, culture and civilisation. Outside it lay barbarians, chaos and disorder.’

And how does Cooper ‘deal with’ this ‘chaos’?

‘But, when dealing with old-fashioned states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era - force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary….’

‘The most logical way to deal with chaos ………….is colonisation.’

So, there we have it, British government policy is to colonise by force.

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by Kathy

Fri Jan 10, 2003 14:17

Its alive and well in the CWI

can't go on, gotta do some work

Thu Jan 09, 2003 15:07

Robert Cooper article is at www.observer.co.uk , under Global Issues, Observer Worldview.
the article is entitled "Why we still need empires"

Having watched the world At War series again recently, I learned the following :- NEVER demonise a race/ country of people.
These people need a perceived common enemy to become strong.
The NAZI's had the Jews.
Today the white westerners have, basically, brown people. (Arabs, Asians, South Americans etc.)

White = order.
Brown = chaos.

Goebbels said "The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."

Order. Chaos. Order = white. Chaos = brown

Order = white
Order = white
Order = white

chaos = brown
chaos = brown
chaos = brown.

The New White Order.

please go on Depp!

by iosaf

Thu Jan 09, 2003 14:19

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The British Empire mentality hasn't gone away

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