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can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a New World Order where the
strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt’s and
Winston Churchill’s vision for peace for the post-war period.”
In a September 11, 1990 televised address to a joint session of Congress, Bush said:
“A new partnership of nations has begun. We stand today at a unique and extraordinary
moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, offers a rare opportunity to move
toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective–
a New World Order– can emerge ... When we are successful, and we will be, we have a
real chance at this New World Order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use
its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the United Nations’ founders.”
The September 17, 1990 issue of Time magazine said that “the Bush administration would
like to make the United Nations a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order.”
In a September 25, 1990 address to the UN, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze
described Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait as “an act of terrorism (that) has been perpetrated against the
emerging New World Order.”
In an October 1, 1990, UN address, President Bush talked about the “…collective strength of
the world community expressed by the UN … an historic movement towards a New World
Order … a new partnership of nations … a time when humankind came into its own … to bring
about a revolution of the spirit and the mind and begin a journey into a … new age.” On October
30, 1990, Bush suggested that the UN could help create “a New World Order and a long era of
peace.”
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, said that one of the purposes for the
Desert Storm operation, was to show to the world how a “reinvigorated United Nations could
serve as a global policeman in the New World Order.”
On December 31, 1990, Gorbachev said that the New World Order would be ushered in by
the Gulf War.
Prior to the Gulf War, on January 29, 1991, Bush told the nation in his State of the Union
address:
“What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea– a New World Order,
where diverse nations are drawn together in a common cause to achieve the universal
aspirations of mankind; peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world
worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future.” He also said: “If we do not
follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his
lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging New World Order we
now see, this long dreamed–of vision we’ve all worked toward for so long.”
In a speech to the families of servicemen at Fort Gordon, Georgia on February 1, 1991, Bush
said: “When we win, and we will, we will have taught a dangerous dictator, and any tyrant
tempted to follow in his footsteps, that the United States has a new credibility and that what we
say goes, and that there is no place for lawless aggression in the Persian Gulf and in this New
World Order that we seek to create.” Following a February 6, 1991 speech to the Economic Club
of New York City, Bush answered a reporter’s question about what the New World Order was,
by saying: “Now, my vision of a New World Order foresees a United Nations with a revitalized