- Making a speech at the Senate, the chief of the intelligence
service of the American defense ministry, Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson
announced that the era, which started after the cold war, was over on September
11, 2001. This date is the start of the new era. It's roots, as the intelligence
officers from the defense ministry believe, come from the struggle against
globalization. The terrorist attack on America is a part of this struggle.
Globalization is capable of moving the people all over the world very quickly,
as well as money, ideas, technologies. The extremists like Al-Qaeda members
sensed danger in that, the vice admiral thinks.
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- They connect globalization with the American values,
that is why it is often equated with the process of "forceful americanization"
of the whole world. There are all reasons to believe so: it is America
that invents the globalization, runs it and gains profit from it. The terrorists,
as the vice admiral claimed, accused the USA of everything bad in this
world, looking for their allies in the countries, groups an people, who
did not sympathize with the American supremacy. Wilson also said that the
terrorists were successfully using the fruits of the globalization, against
which that they were fighting. They use the flows of people, money, and
technologies in order to attack "the open societies."
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- The head of the military intelligence said that the results
of the globalization were not supposed to be good for everyone all the
time. The extremist groups used that, recruiting their followers among
those, who suffered from it. Wilson urged to promote the positive aspects
of globalization, trying to reduce its negative impact. It is not known,
if Americans are going to succeed in this respect, or if they want to deal
with this at all. However, Wilson's speech showed that the USA had finally
started realizing that America's enemies were not "coming down from
the Moon" - America was making it's enemies itself.
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- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/03/21/27125.html
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