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Pouring taxpayer dollars into the "gap".(Insider Report)
On several occasions THE NEW AMERICAN has discussed Pentagon "futurist" Thomas P.M. Barnett and his strategic concept of dividing the world into the "functioning core" and the "non-integrating gap." "Core" nations are those plugged into the UN-administered system of "global governance"; "gap" nations are those yet to be assimilated.
Barnett's emphatic support for the Iraq War, as he explained in the pages of Esquire magazine, was "that the resulting long-term military commitment will finally force America to deal with the entire Gap as a strategic threat environment." Which is to say that although Saddam's regime was the enemy, the true target of the war was the American public, who would be manipulated into supporting an open-ended global campaign to "integrate" nations into the UN-administered "core." For the foreseeable future, Barnett insists, the U.S. must use its military might to "1) Increase the Core's immune system capabilities for responding to September 11-type perturbations; 2) Work the seam states to firewall the Core from the Gap's worst exports, such as terror, drugs, and pandemics; 3) Shrink the Gap."
The Commission on Weak States and National Security, an august panel of globalist ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 14, 2004 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Naval War College Review Berube, Claude October 1, 2009 700+ words
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