Center to Bush: For a New World Order Worth Fighting For — Pax Democratica

In anticipation of President Bush’s appearance tomorrow night before a joint session of Congress, the Center for Security Policy today released the text of a speech by its director, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., addressing the issue of principal presidential concern — the so-called New World Order. The Center encouraged Mr. Bush through this speech to put aside illusions about an international arrangement that relies heavily on marriages of convenience with totalitarian states in favor of one based on — and conducive to — the spread of democratic political and free market economic systems.

This concept of a New World Order (or NWO) based on what the Center calls Pax Democratica was presented by Gaffney yesterday to the International Young Democrat Union meeting in Arlington, Virginia. In those remarks (a copy of which is attached), he suggested that the role of the Soviet Union and the United Nations played in the crisis with Iraq was not nearly as invaluable — or as unadulteratedly constructive — as is often asserted.

The Center believes that a different international arrangement is urgently needed and should be pursued aggressively by the United States and other Western democracies. Such a NWO, Pax Democratica, would be one in which the leading nations were all responsible to their people — insofar as their people determine the form, policies and priorities of the government that rules them.

Gaffney observes that, "Where nations share the traditions, ethics and institutions of Western liberal democracy — including, respect for individual civil rights, private property and due process of law, all protected by limited governments presided over by freely elected representatives — they tend to have certain desirable qualities:

• They are generally not tempted by aggression and are reluctant to go to war;

 

• they tend to respect international law and treaty commitments; and

 

• their reliability as allies — or partners in a world order — is a function of these shared values, not cynical calculations of short-term advantage."

The Center urges President Bush to make the pursuit of such a New World Order — and the corollary commitment to support democracy and free market systems in nations where the potential for aggressive behavior persists, for example in the Soviet Union, China, Syria, North Korea and Vietnam — the centerpieces of his post-war diplomacy and of his statement to the Joint Session of Congress.