Posted on 06/27/2006 10:21:49 PM PDT by neverdem
Set against the backdrop of decolonization and an international environment split between Cold War superpowers, both weak and newly independent states formed a bloc that became known as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). While essentially contradictory from its inception, it was not until the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the Warsaw Pact that NAM became largely irrelevant in a seemingly tranquil and unipolar world. However, contemporary attempts to challenge America's global leadership have caused the organization to drastically improve its standing.
Between the 27th and 30th of May, the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned countries met in Putrajaya, Malaysia. A 60-page "Final Document" produced at the recent meeting in Malaysia is worth exploring as it plainly illustrates both the ideology and goals of this increasingly influential organization. "Terrorism," the document notes in a statement likely aimed at the United States and Israel, "should not be equated with the legitimate struggle of people's under colonial or alien domination and foreign occupation." Palpably referring to the Bush administration, the NAM document affirms that among their objectives is to "oppose and condemn the categorization of countries as good and evil based on unilateral and unjustified criteria, and the adoption of the doctrine of pre-emptive attack."
The document also denounces the "politically motivated" promotion of democracy and the imposition of "unilateral economic sanctions," while defending such member nations as Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and Venezuela. Perhaps most egregious of the stated methods of NAM is the call for solidarity with member states that have come under international pressure. Clearly a central subject of this pronouncement is the Islamic Republic of Iran. In fact, Tehran's influence was largely on display with the following call to:
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Yup, "non-aligned," all right.
Does this mean that the NAM countries will not be coming to America with begging bowls in hand?
The Non-aligned movement arose because all the world's evil dictators and theocrats wanted to join together to throw parties where nobody would pick on them for being evil.
"...the aforementioned NAM document stated that the group agreed to request that "the colonialist countries pay full compensation for the economic, social and political consequences of their occupation."
And here is the key to it all - a moral claim that any country that is rich is so only by virtue of theft and that international social justice consists of a transfer of wealth and a subordination of those who have earned to those who demand.
This is, in fact, folklore turned into dogma and even its most earnest proponents do not dare to look too closely at its premises. It is no accident that the movement has decided to embark upon a media venture, although it needn't - most of the Western media have been carrying water for it for the last forty years.
Well,I suppose it'll be OK to give them Buffet's, Gate's and Tiger Wood's money. Huh??
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
How can anyone call Cuba "non-aligned"? They were clearly on the Soviet side for 30 years.
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Uhhhhhh, that's what non-aligned really means. Words mean nothing.
"Non-aligned" my Aunt Fanny! Most of them were (and many still are) Marxist and Soviet fellow travellers.
"The Non-aligned movement arose because all the world's evil dictators and theocrats wanted to join together to throw parties where nobody would pick on them for being evil."
What's the matter -- did the UN stop hosting parties for them?
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These nations are so convenient... saving those State Department workers all that time drawing up proposals for who belongs on the axis of evil...
The thing is that Russia and China also spout anti-Americanism off in their respective bodies, but it is not published in US media sources.
Non aligned=In bed with Russian and Chinese weapons and Russia and China themselves.
Seldom does a single sentence reveal so much about a group's true motives as this one has done here.
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