The Facade of Good Intentions

In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 281-286

Abstract

Asserts that the rhetoric for US military spending to protect against rogue states is just an excuse to funnel large amounts of money to certain corporations. In particular, the article shows that the $50 billion missile defense system is unnecessary, because rogue states such as North Korea, Iran, & Iraq are incapable of staging a missile attack against the US. The article also points out that the US does not protest aggression if it fits in with American interests; eg, the Bush administration did not protest Saddam Hussein's using mustard gas on his own Kurdish population in the early 1990s. Altogether, US foreign policy has not been driven by lofty ideals but by national self-interest defined by multinational corporations. R. Larsen