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July
17, 2003
Bush's Pre-emptive
Strike Doctrine
The
Bane of Non-Proliferation Watchdogs
By MARTIN SCHWARZ
U.S. President George W. Bush's new doctrine of
preventive war and pre-emptive strikes is turning the UN's nuclear
watchdog into a lapdog.
After decades of low-profile work to
promote cooperation on peaceful use of nuclear energy, the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is being forced to mediate between
the United States and certain members of what the Bush administration
terms the axis of evil--namely Iraq, Iran, and North Korea--,
with the unfortunate outcome of a likely increase in nuclear
weapons.
Until the crisis over Iraq, the 2,200
employees and diplomats at the IAEA in Vienna led a relatively
relaxed life, carrying out their duties to inspect and enforce
the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and encourage disarmament
of atomic weapons of mass destruction.
But something changed for them when they
didn't find what Bush wanted them to find in their inspections
of Iraq: nuclear weapons, or at least a clandestine nuclear program.
That seriously damaged relations between Washington and the IAEA.
"The U.S. was very angry with the way we presented our findings
at the UN Security Council," one IAEA diplomat said. Since
then the IAEA has found itself in both the U.S. and world spotlight.
Mohamed El-Baradei, director general of the IAEA, has come under
"immense pressure from the U.S.," as one diplomat at
the UN in Vienna told me.
There has been no time for a diplomatic
reconciliation between the U.S. government and the IAEA, as the
Bush administration has hastened to frame Iran and North Korea
as the new nuclear threats to justify its doctrine.
At the moment, the IAEA is the uneasy
mediator between Tehran and Washington: "We have to find
a compromise between them," one IAEA diplomat said, after
the board of governors of the IAEA decided not to follow the
U.S. recommendation to refer the problem with Iran's nuclear
program to the Security Council. The Bush administration wanted
to see Iran as a defendant at the Security Council. But this
idea was rejected by the other board members, who opted to try
to convince Tehran to agree to a stricter inspection regime.
Concretely, Washington wanted Iran to
sign an additional protocol to the NPT, allegedly to improve
IAEA inspectors' effectiveness. But Washington refuses to let
IAEA inspectors work in the United States, and its main allies
in its war on terrorism haven't signed this protocol, raising
doubts about Bush's commitment to non-proliferation.
Bush's use of the specter of nuclear
threat to legitimate his intimidation policy can also been seen
as just another excuse if reports from occupied post-war Iraq
are taken into account. When the reports about massive looting
in Iraq's biggest nuclear facility Al-Tuwaitha emerged after
the war, the U.S. administration rejected the IAEA's request
to send inspectors to that facility for more than a month. El-Baradei
didn't even get an answer to his letters to U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell. Meanwhile, strange things must have happened
in Al-Tuwaitha: The IAEA in Vienna received several phone calls
from U.S. soldiers based at the facility to secure it, who didn't
know what to do with nuclear material they had found.
In North Korea, where good reasons exist
to believe nuclear weapons are being developed, the IAEA inspectors
were thrown out at the end of last year, prompting agency officials
to surmise that their organization is in the middle of a bilateral
game between the Asian nation and the United States. Saddled
with the duty to resolve the conflict between the two over North
Korea's nuclear program, but without the power to do so, the
IAEA is facing the best example to date of problems it may face
in the future.
North Korea seized on its international
obligations under the NPT only to provoke the United States to
restart financial and humanitarian aid. For North Korea, bankrupt
in every sense, nuclear weapons seem to be the only way to put
pressure on the U.S. superpower. Pyongyang banished IAEA inspectors,
not because of its dissatisfaction with the inspection regime,
but due to fear of Bush and a possible pre-emptive strike. So
North Korea is the first regime to learn this lesson from the
standoff over Iraq: If you represent a real nuclear threat to
the United States, it may have the will to solve bilateral problems
not by force, but by negotiations.
"The U.S. has destroyed our work,"
an IAEA official said. In other words: Washington's policy will
not support non-proliferation efforts, but rather will lead into
a new era of nuclear armament.
Martin Schwarz
is author of the forthcoming book (in German) Saddams blutiges
Erbe:- Der wirkliche Krieg steht uns noch bevor on the consequences
of the Iraq war. (For more information see http://irak.go.cc/
.) He's a regular contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus
(online at www.fpif.org). He can be reached at: martin_schwarz@stories-texte.tk
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