بیشترتوضیحاتافزودن یادداشت جدید 5-The US Military Doctrine Some ten years have elapsed since the publishing of parts of an important document by The New York Times, which as usual, was not given any coverage by major US television networks, neither was it broadcast on major radio stations or published in high-circulation newspapers. The document had been prepared under the direct supervision of Pentagon's top strategic planner, Paul Wolfowitz, during the Reagan and the elder Bush's presidencies, who is currently the deputy Defense Minister in George W. Bush's administration. It leaked to The New York Times about a year after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when the Soviet Union had just collapsed. In the words of its reporter this document is: "A legal document in justification of US military plans and weapons production during the next five years with a $1.2 trillion price tag attached." Such military expenditures and plans also implicitly mean that the United States leaders are seeking a kind of global security system which would also prevent any military re-emergence of Japan and Germany, and specifically prevent these two countries from ever becoming nuclear powers. There are few fundamental points in this document, which make them worthy of extraordinary attention: A Contrary to common belief, the real aim of US antagonism and warlike behavior and plans is not limited to only small countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Sudan. B Direct and unabashed threats by American leaders against the countries which are not considered major powers or seem even weak, or attacks on Iraq or Afghanistan although have specific economic, geopolitical, and political aims (such as oil resources, safe routes for oil and gas pipelines, or gaining military bases on foreign lands for domination over yet other third countries), they also are in a way testing and proving grounds for the newly adopted American policy. C An indirect "message" to "potential rivals" such as China, Germany, Russia, or a European Union, saying in effect that not only the US leadership will absolutely not accept another military rival, but that they should not even contemplate such rivalry. D In addition, the document means that not only the Unites States intends not to ever tolerate a military rival, but that its superiority must be so overwhelming that "it can independently if allies and coalitions prove impossible defeat any country any time it so wishes." E Another important point is that although the Unites States is itself one of the founders of the United Nations and that in the first few decades American leaders thought it sound policy to support the world body in order to carry out its plans and policies in the face of the "communist threat," whenever US actions have contradicted the most elementary tenets of international law and human rights, it does not seem to think itself bound by any United Nations actions or its Security Council resolutions. This is quite evident when we see that the US continually votes with a the smallest of minority in most General Assembly resolutions, or even in votes cast at the Security Council, and has taken unilateral military action disregard of the United Nations.