Future: Tense: The Coming World Order? (Paperback)

*Soft Copy

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Product Details

• Soft cover: 254 pages
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. 2004
  
• Language: English

"The United States needs to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible. Even more urgently, the whole world needs the United States to lose the war in Iraq."

This is how journalist Gwynne Dyer begins his second book on the Iraq crisis, a follow-up to the gloomy forecasts made in Ignorant Armies. He has many reasons for not wishing the U.S. well, but the basic one is that American unilateralism threatens "international institutions that are our fragile first line of defence against a return to the great-power wars that could destroy us all."

His anxiety is understandable. The current American administration has shown a disturbingly open contempt for the rule of laws both domestic and international (the whole concept of international law being dismissed as "hot air" by one sympathetic lawyer - an unconscious echo of the "scrap of paper"?). The defining characteristic of the Bush presidency has been its steadfast belief that might is right. Power does what it wants without justification, apology, or even bothering to admit that "mistakes were made." In the bad old days the UN Charter and the International Convention on Human Rights was "broken daily, even hourly, but it made a difference that the oppressors generally felt obliged to deny their misdeeds or cloak them in fake legality rather than simply doing them boldly and openly." If the present cavalier attitude toward the Geneva Convention is any indication, we may be on our way to a truly Orwellian future where that obligation is no longer operative.

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