Politics > Politics-USA > 'We just need another 9-11 to pull off Bush Dynasty's USA-Mexico merger,' says NWO wonk
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'We just need another 9-11 to pull off Bush Dynasty's USA-Mexico merger,' says NWO wonk |
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53378
December 15, 2006
North American Union leader says merger just crisis away
Leading intellectual force behind effort toward EU-style unity looks at
future
By Jerome R. Corsi
Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an
EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11
crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case
the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP –
launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in
Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete
with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just
as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe.
In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations
task force that produced a report entitled "Toward a North American
Community," which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP
declared by President Bush, Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox, and
Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.
(Story continues below)
At American University in Washington, D.C., Pastor directs the Center
for North American Studies where he teaches a course entitled "North
America: A Union, A Community, or Just Three Nations?" As WND
previously has reported, Pastor is on the board of the North American
Forum on Integration, the NAFI, a non-profit organization that annually
holds a mock trilateral parliament for 100 selected students drawn from
10 universities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Pastor had published an interview in Spanish in the Oct. 24 issue of
Poder y Negocios. He told the magazine crises can force decisions that
otherwise would not be made.
"The 9/11 crisis made Canada and the United States redefine the
protection of their borders," Pastor explained. "The debt crisis in
Mexico forced the government to adapt a new economic model. The crises
oblige the governments to make difficult decisions."
This was the first time WND had found a major intellectual leader
behind the push to integrate North America suggesting that a crisis of
9-11 proportions might be just what was needed to advance the process
toward establishing a North American Union and the amero. WND reached
Pastor in his office at American University and conducted a telephone
interview to make sure the Spanish publication accurately reflected his
views.
He affirmed the Spanish interview represents his thinking.
"What I'm saying is that a crisis is an event which can force
democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that will
be required to create a North American Community," he said. "It's not
that I want another 9/11 crisis, but having a crisis would force
decisions that otherwise might not get made."
Pastor noted, for example that "Europeans, facing the crisis of two
World Wars, turned to the European Community as a means to prevent war
and advance their economic interests."
"The United States turned to the Marshall Plan when faced with the
crisis of Western Europe falling into the hands of communism," he said.
"So, I'm not advocating, or encouraging, or wanting a crisis, I'm only
saying that in order to take important initiatives, sometimes one
manner in which this occurs is when there is a crisis to which leaders
need to respond."
Pastor told WND he lamented that the leadership of the three North
American countries is not positioned to make the type of tough
decisions needed to advance a North American Community agenda.
In his interview with Poder y Negocios, he argued, "Canada has a
minority government and Mexico will soon have a minority government
that will be confronted with what amounts to an uprising that we hope
will be peaceful. The United States has a lame duck president whose
principle preoccupation is the war in Iraq and instability in the
Middle East."
Pastor further told WND Mexico's Fox made a tactical mistake by laying
out an overly ambitious agenda to integrate with the United States.
"President Bush then took on the issue of illegal immigration, and it
proved to be much more difficult than anticipated," he said. In the
absence of strong North American leadership, is a crisis the way
greater North American integration can be expected to happen?
"There are alternatives to a crisis for getting a major decision
adopted by the president and by the congress," Pastor responded. "But
what I am saying is that we lack the kind of North American leadership
we need. Our founding fathers created a system of governance that was
not designed to be efficient but was designed to protect freedom.
Therefore, you created checks and balances that did protect freedom but
also made it difficult to move forward on important issues."
Pastor was asked what North American leaders would need to do to move
toward integration.
"We need to form a customs union to move North American integration to
a new level," Pastor argued. "A customs union would eliminate rules of
origin on the border and agree to a common external tariff. This would
not be easy but not as difficult as NAFTA was, and it would lead to
efficiencies in our economies and in the end contribute to a better
standard of living for all parties."
Pastor also called for a North American Investment Fund to invest in
Mexico's infrastructure.
"If we had a North American Investment Fund," Pastor explained, "over
the long term, you would narrow the income gap between Mexico and the
U.S."
WND previously reported Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, dropped his support
for legislation (S. 3622) he introduced in the 109th Congress to create
a North American Investment Fund after WND pointed out the proposed law
would advance an important part of Pastor's agenda to create a North
American Community.
Pastor was careful to distinguish that his proposals were designed to
create a North American Community and that he never has proposed to
create a North American Union as an EU-style regional government.
"What I am recommending is a series of functional steps that are more
than incremental," Pastor admitted. "Each of the proposals I have laid
out represent more than just small steps. But it doesn't represent a
leap toward a North American Union, or even to some confederation of
any kind. I don't think either is plausible, necessary, or even helpful
to contemplate at this stage."
The idea seems to be to put new structures in place that change the
look of the landscape. WND pointed out to Pastor that this step-by-step
approach is the same approach taken to create the European Union. The
memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the architect of European unity,
finally disclosed he had used a strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to
form a European Union would never succeed if it were openly disclosed.
Pastor was asked if he thought a North American Union was a bad idea.
"No," he replied. "I don't think a political union of North America is
an inherently bad idea, nor do I think it is a good idea for North
America right now. I teach a course at American University in which I
look at the different options for political integration of North
America, and I put the options before the students."
Then why is a North American Union a bad idea right now?
"The reason the political integration is not a good idea at this stage
now, perhaps never, is because of people like yourself who immediately
begin to fear that their sense of America could disappear," Pastor
responded. "Somehow, if you're fearful that America's sovereignty will
disappear, you won't even take small steps forward. You just get mired
in the status quo. The problem is that the world is moving very
rapidly, and you can't stay competitive if you don't move."
Pastor did not reject the idea that a North American Union could form,
but only after further continental economic integration and the
development of a North American Community in which people are able to
think as citizens of North America.
Is China the winner in the NAFTA super-corridors being planned for
North America?
"If you define trade in zero-sum terms, China may be the winner in the
transportation corridors," Pastor conceded. "But even in zero-sum
terms, consumers benefit from the increasing imports that give them
more choice and give them more quality. In the final analysis, we are
all consumers."
Pastor affirmed he favors globalism.
"I believe," he explained to WND, "that globalization is a net plus for
the world economy, for the middle class, and for all people."
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