Does it sound far-fetched? The title of the article in an Aussie paper is titled Bush: How I'll Rule the World. In the light of Bible prophecy, the contents of the article are very interesting.

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The Bush Administration has spelt out its determination to enforce America's global domination, insisting it will allow no other power to challenge its military and economic supremacy.

In a 33-page document, published overnight Sydney time, President George Bush says the US will never allow its military might to be challenged the way it was during the Cold War.

It says "the President has no intention of allowing any foreign power to catch up with the huge lead the United States has opened since the fall of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago".

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The interesting thing is I have not heard or seen anything about this document in a US source, not even Matt Drudge!

Linda,

This report entitled "The National Security Strategy of the United States" is an annual report the president is required to make to Congress. It has been filed every year by the president since 1986 as required by 50 USC 404a, which is part of the National Security Act. Perhaps the US press has grown accustomed to this routine report and saw nothing particularly unusual or newsworthy.

It would be interesting to compare the reports made by the various presidents since 1986 to see the trends, differences and similarities. I took a quick look at a summary of George W.'s father's report made in 1990. It seems there are some similarities of approach. I suspect that some of the broad strategies carry over from one administration to another.

If you are interested in doing some research on this, just do a general search using the title of the report. You should get a few hundred hits.

Happy hunting!

Tom

[ September 24, 2002, 04:58 PM: Message edited by: Tom Wetmore ]

Thanks Tom. I may do a comparison of the reports. 1986 would have been Ron Reagan, then Bush, Clinton, and Bush. Might make and interesting study.

I orginally made this post at 6PM yesterday, but it disappeared. Fortunately, I had saved a copy of this topic to my HD.

Did a little research and found that the entire document can be downloaded at http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ Look for the PDF document link under the picture of Condeleeza (sp?) Rice.

I also discovered that this is the first strategy report that the GW Bush Whitehouse has done.

Tom alerted me to an article in Christianity Today regarding Bush's NS Strategy. It adds an interesting dimension. You can read it at Christian Leaders Respond to Bush's National Security Strategy.

The last four paragraphs of the CT article are notable. I have bolded what really stands out.

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In standard policy framework of the past, Skillen says, preemptive action sought to disarm the means by which a country was intending harm. The proposed plans of the Bush administration speak of "regime change." Skillen says this is similar to comparing neutralizing hostile tanks posed on the border to wiping out a government.

"At that level, to refer to the longstanding preemptive action authority of the state doesn't at all get at what this policy is about," he says. "To claim the right to be able to end a regime compared to going to war against their ability to cause violence is something new and has to be debated. I don't see how it can be justified on older terms."

The strategy also poses serious questions of the United States' role in the world at large and within the U.N. Security Council. He says that fears of the U.S. acting as an empirical authority may be legitimate.

"It looks to me like there are elements in this strategy document that the U.S. is now going to look at the whole world and make sure that no power can stand in its way and it will take preemptive action," Skillen said. "These will be the terms that the U.N., if it has any operation in the future, will have to operate under. We should not assume there is a single government that can claim a sort of ultimate authority to decide what direction the whole globe should go."

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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. . . . And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Rev. 13:11-17.

The dragon's roar is growing louder, as he breaths out threatenings to those who would oppose global unity. Mr. Skillen is sadly wrong, there is a single government that will and does claim an ultimate authority to decide what direction the whole globe should go. That government is also a religious institution, and it's head is the Bishop of Rome.