Posted on 01/10/2004 7:24:16 PM PST by Pokey78
The Stars and Stripes should be now flying over the Islington headquarters of CND. Yes, the anti-nuclear pressure group still exists and has been at the forefront of the current anti-war movement. Within CND HQ, the peace activists should be raising their glasses of organic carrot juice in gratitude to President George W Bush. For the ostensible aim of CND is make the world a safer place by reductions in arsenals of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Through his toughness, the President is triumphantly achieving that goal. Only last week North Korea offered to suspend the testing and production of nuclear weapons, following the recent promise by Libya to give up all its weapons of mass destruction. In December, Iran agreed to a new round of UN inspections, as well as the suspension of its uranium enrichment programme. Best of all, the shadow of Saddam Hussein, who was obsessed with the development of a nuclear capability, has been removed.
It might be thought that CND's members would rejoice at Mr Bush's success in demilitarising the most dangerous regimes on the planet. But they could not care less. Trapped in their anti-Western ideology, they continue to trumpet the claim that America represents the greatest threat to world peace, wilfully ignoring the obvious truth that it is the reality of US force which persuades - or compels - rogue states to disarm.
Such myopia has been at the heart of CND since its creation in 1958. Peace campaigners have only ever been interested in British or American disarmament. They never marched against Soviet missile programmes, never organised demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy. I should know, because I was a member of CND for most of the 1980s, driven by the shallow, self-righteous emotionalism which consumes so many young people. But every CND event with which I was involved was anti-American and anti-British in flavour.
The fall of the Berlin Wall made me grow up. I recognised that the Soviet Empire was destroyed by American might, not candle-lit vigils. There are, though, some deluded souls who still believe the West can protect itself through unilateral pacifism. This amounts to nothing more than cowardice, as CND admitted last year in explaining its opposition to action in Iraq: "War greatly increases the risk that instead of being disarmed, Iraq's weapons of mass destruction may be used." So, like Mr Bush and Tony Blair, CND actually believed Saddam had WMD, but was too terrified to do anything about them.
But fear is often accompanied by something much more sinister. In 1945, George Orwell wrote of those "intellectual pacifists whose real, though unacknowledged, motive appears to be a hatred of western democracy and an admiration for totalitarianism". Over the last three decades, that has been precisely the spirit of CND. During the Cold War, too many activists were pro-Soviet in outlook. Even today, the leader of CND, Kate Hudson, is a member of the Communist Party. At a Left-wing conference in 1997, she gave a speech lamenting "the passing of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall".
CND's instinct for supporting the enemies of the West has now been translated into a grotesque partnership with Islamic fundamentalism. In campaigning against Bush, CND is now in a formal alliance with the Muslim Association of Britain, a viciously anti-Semitic organisation which refuses to condemn al-Qaeda. Dr Azzam Tamini, the association's spokesman, has said: "The Israelis have guns; we have human bombs. We love death; they love life," hardly the sentiments of pacifism. But CND has always been more vexed by the resolution of those who protect our freedom than those would destroy it.
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