No World Order
THINKSTO
“We have before us the opportunity to forge for
ourselves and for future generations a new world order — a world where
the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of
nations. When we are successful — and we will be — we have a real chance
at this new world order…” — George H.W. Bush in his
Jan. 16, 1991, address to the Nation announcing allied military action in the Persian Gulf
“We have before us the opportunity to forge for
ourselves and for future generations a new world order — a world where
the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of
nations. When we are successful — and we will be — we have a real chance
at this new world order…” — George H.W. Bush in his Jan. 16, 1991, address to the Nation announcing allied military action in the Persian Gulf
Twenty-three years ago, President George H.W. Bush spoke of his
vision for a new world order (NWO). It was heady times to be the
President of the United States. It took only a few months for Bush to
soundly defeat Saddam Hussein’s military and drive the Iraqis out of
Kuwait. At the same time, the Soviet Union was collapsing. And in 1989,
the Berlin Wall had fallen, as scores of Soviet satellite nations were
breaking away from the Kremlin. China was moving away from being a
closed-off military power, with the country focusing its sights on
growing its economy and its manufacturing.
The “peace dividend” was at hand for Bush, who presumed that the
United Nations would help build a world utopia ruled by a benevolent
government.
More than two decades later, the NWO remains a fearful contemplation,
but one best left for futuristic novels. While many people still sell
NWO conspiracy theories in detail (except for their lack of evidence),
societies are fracturing at the regional, national and international
levels.
Now, halfway through 2014, a sandstorm is blowing out of the Mideast
and in Central Europe as tribal, political and religious hatreds boil
over into mayhem far beyond the control of a centralized world
government.
Along the Gaza Strip, the hatred has spilled so far that diplomacy
has become pointless, allowing atrocities by Jews and Arabs to fall
toward new lows — each time committed by the ideology of their world
order, not a NWO.
Ukraine, the starting point for wars in the past century, is erupting
in civil war today, threatening to pull in old foes like the Western
powers and Russia into a conventional and eventually a nuclear
confrontation.
New World Order Hardly New
I started work with an investment newsletter 35 years ago. I was just
a kid two years out of college, and my professional experience was
mostly limited to writing about purebred cattle. I was hardly able to
muster a sentence when my father — who, to my good fortune, believed in
nepotism — hired me on as a researcher.
I spent that first year reading every newsletter that came in the
mail, and there were dozens of them. I remember back in 1980 the
anti-Trilateralists were in full swing. It was said that the
Trilateralists were members of rich industrialists of the 20
th
century such as the Rockefellers. The-sky-is-falling newsletters said
that the Trilateralists’ goal was to take over the world — in other
words, one world government.
Each day, I read how the Trilateralists — this cabal of evil men in
the United States, Japan and Western Europe — would soon take over the
world. This secret organization was all hush-hush, of course; so it was
common sense that none of those newsletter publishers could provide
details as to who these players were and what their plan was, except to
stir up fear of a world government conquest and along the way sell a lot
of subscriptions. But the villains were never named, nor were the
specifics of their terrible plot other than to say it was the work of
world leaders, industrialists and Jews.
