'Hi, Bush' to 'Heil Boche' Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2002
by Mani Shankar Aiyar The Bush Doctrine has elevated "regime change" as the foreign policy alternative to national sovereignty and collective security under the U.N. Charter. Saddam must go. Arafat must go. The US will decide who is a good `un and who a Bad Boy. And if they will not do as told, the entire population will be bombed to smithereens. We have been here before. "Regime change" is what Hitler insisted on in ordering the Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg to quit in favour of the Nazi quisling Artur Seyss-Inquart when the Chancellor committed the outrage, in Hitler's eyes, of ordering a plebiscite to ascertain whether the Austrian people wished to be absorbed into the German Reich. MORE
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