'Bush Doctrine' Endangers World Order: Thai Newspaper

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'Bush Doctrine' Endangers World Order: Thai Newspaper

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US President George W. Bush's recently-revealed security policy paper shows that "he intents to lead the world into a new dangerous era where decades-old multilateralism is being discarded," a leading Thai newspaper pointed out Friday.

The so-called "Bush Doctrine" places fighting terrorism and themaintenance of American military supremacy at the center of the USsecurity strategy and moves away from the policies of multilateralism which have kept the world in peace for the last 50years, the Nation newspaper said in an editorial.

"The security paper states that the U.S. will vigorously protect the military dominance it has held since the end of the Cold War by further strengthening its armed forces and deploying more and more troops overseas," it noted.

"Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equalling, the power of the United States," Bush said so.

By announcing that, the U.S. sets one rule for itself and another for the rest of the world, the editorial said.

"Bush's security policy paper is remarkably consistent with hisattitude toward the international community. He derided the Kyoto environmental accord, refused to attend the UN sustainable development summit and declared that US citizens will not be boundby the International Criminal Court," it noted.

"Such a policy suggests that America is repeating the mistakes of all history's imperialists-- that of confusing its own foreign policy objective with the global good," said the editorial.

"Bush says America can no longer rely on multilateral organizations like the United Nations to protect its security and the safety of its citizens. This is a dangerous notion because unless nation states are willing to subordinate some sovereignty for higher global values, military conflict is inevitable," it said.

"Rather than contributing to the world order, American unilateralism will severely destabilize it," concluded the editorial.

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