Quest for Global Dominance

TimeWatch Editorial
August 08, 2016

According to his biography, Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928. He was an intellectual prodigy who went on to earn a PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1955, he has been a professor at MIT and has produced groundbreaking, controversial theories on human linguistic capacity. Chomsky is widely published, both on topics in his field and on issues of dissent and U.S. foreign policy. In 2003, Dr. Chomsky published a book entitled: “Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance.” It is truly amazing the number of individual authors who have described the American ambition to achieve total global dominance. None of these, I might add, have in any way referenced the incredible prophecy found in Revelation chapter 13, verses 11 through 17, written almost 2000 years before the formation of the United States. In the very first chapter of his book, Chomsky says the following:

“In the early fall of 2002 it was learned that a possibly terminal nuclear war was barely avoided forty years earlier. Immediately after this startling discovery, the Bush administration blocked UN efforts to ban the militarization of space, a serious threat to survival. The administration also terminated international negotiations to prevent biological warfare and moved to ensure the inevitability of an attack on Iraq, despite popular opposition that was without historical precedent.” Noam Chomsky, “Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance” page 4

Notice that Dr. Chomsky is placing the ambition of the United States in the context of the nation’s response to the events that took place on September 11, 2001. Even though there are those who support the concept of American Global Dominance as an act of National Security in order to prevent a reoccurrence of that fateful day, the idea of national supremacy certainly does precede the events of that day. But with the passage of September 11, 2001, the United States now moves forward aggressively with Full Spectrum Dominance. Listen to how Dr. Chomsky continues:

“In September 2002 the Bush administration announced its National Security Strategy, which declared the right to resort to force to eliminate any perceived challenge to US global hegemony, which is to be permanent. The new grand strategy aroused deep concern worldwide, even within the foreign policy elite at home. Also in September, a propaganda campaign was launched to depict Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to the United States and to insinuate that he was responsible for the 9-11 atrocities and was planning others. The campaign, timed to the onset of the midterm congressional elections, was highly successful in shifting attitudes. It soon drove American public opinion off the global spectrum and helped the administration achieve electoral aims and establish Iraq as a proper test case for the newly announced doctrine of resort to force at will.” Noam Chomsky, “Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance” page 5

In quoting the White House, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 17 September 2002, Chomsky says the following:

“High on the global agenda by fall 2002 was the declared intention of the most powerful state in history to maintain its hegemony through the threat or use of military force, the dimension of power in which it reigns supreme. In the official rhetoric of the National Security Strategy, "Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States." Noam Chomsky, “Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance” page 11

The sympathy that flowed from the world to the United States because of the catastrophy soon began to fade in answer to America’s aggressive agenda.

As the invasion of Iraq began, the prominent historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger wrote that the president has adopted a policy of "anticipatory self-defense" that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy. He added that "the global wave of sympathy that engulfed the United States after 9-11 has given way to a global wave of hatred of American arrogance and militarism," and even in friendly countries the public regards Bush "as a greater threat to peace than Saddam Hussein." International law specialist Richard Falk finds it "inescapable" that the Iraq war was a "Crime against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted, prosecuted, and punished at the Nuremberg trials." Noam Chomsky, “Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance” page 12

The description of Revelation 13 verses 11 and 12 therefore stands.

Revelation13:11 - And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Revelation 13:12 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Cameron A. Bowen