Published on Friday, March 14, 2003 by the Globe & Mail/Canada
Whole World Feels Effect of US Intent, Activist Says
The chief threat to the world today is not Iraq, but the United States, Argentine activist says
by Timothy Appleby
The Bush administration's drive to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is so aggressive that even before a war has started its repercussions are being felt in every corner of the world, says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
The Argentine, who won the 1980 Peace Prize, views President George W. Bush's plans for attacking Iraq with great alarm. "Bush is setting the world on fire," he said.
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"The chief danger in the world today is not Saddam Hussein," Mr. Perez Esquivel said. "It is the United States."
Like other critics of U.S. policy, he perceives in the United States an angry, isolated country inflicting lasting damage on itself. Mr. Perez Esquivel reaches for some words by Abraham Lincoln, quoted by President John F. Kennedy at the United Nations in 1962.
"What Lincoln said more than a century ago is that if the United States doesn't defend life, then it faces the prospect of self-destruction." ........"What's happening with Iraq is not isolated, it's part of a global phenomenon. When we see the installation of U.S. military bases throughout Latin America, when we look at (American interference) in countries such as Venezuela and Colombia and Panama, we have to ask ourselves what's going on.
"Lots of people think it and won't say it, but I will say it: The United States is seeking to control the world. That's why we are seeing the reaction in so many countries."
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