Does US have a foreign policy?
The US Congress
Wed Nov 5, 2014 1:41PM GMT
The Obama administration "has no foreign policy," says Rep. Paul Ryan, the
GOPs 2012 vice-presidential candidate.
While we may tune out this kind of election year rhetoric, similar
complaints no matter which president is being denounced are common on
both sides of the aisle. When the Democrats are in power we hear it from
Republicans, and when the GOP is in the saddle we hear similar accusations
arising from the Democrats. The reality, however, is that the leaders of
both parties know perfectly well that we do in fact have a remarkably
consistent policy, one that has been pursued with increasing militancy ever
since the end of the cold war.
Lets step back and take a look.
No sooner had the Berlin Wall fallen than George Herbert Walker Bush took
the opportunity to make his move in the Middle East with Iraq War I.
Declaring the throne of the Emir of Kuwait to be a vital national interest
of the United States, Bush I declared "this shall not stand" when Saddam
Hussein invaded Iraqs "nineteenth province," otherwise known as Kuwait.
Its time for a "new world order," Bush famously declared and Washingtons
push for world hegemony was on.
Bill Clinton kept up the pressure on Iraq for the whole of his presidency,
launching punishing bombing raids and imposing sanctions that killed many
thousands. A new front was opened up in Europe, where the Bosnian Muslims
and their Kosovar neighbors were pimped out to the Americans: a short war
made short work of the former Yugoslavia, and US-occupied Europe grew a
little larger. This aggression was buttressed by the addition of the Czech
Republic, Hungary, and Poland to the NATO alliance, as the US and its
satellites pushed right up to the gates of Moscow.
Less obvious but no less obtrusive, the Clinton regime set up a special
government agency to exploit the oil resources of the Caspian Basin,
extending the encirclement of Russia into the steppes of Central Asia.
And while the second Bush administration is often blamed for Iraq War II,
the fact is that the legislation funding the Iraqi National Congress and
setting the stage for the biggest military disaster in US history was
enacted by the Clinton administration. The "Iraq Liberation Act" was the
Clintons baby, but both parties jumped on the bandwagon. Only 38 members of
Congress voted against it in the House: it was passed by unanimous consent
in the Senate and the road to chaos in the Middle East was cleared.
The Great Leap Forward for the American Empire came in the wake of the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: Afghanistan and Iraq
were conquered in short order, and a long occupation was begun. On the
European front, NATO expansion continued apace under George W. Bush, with
the addition of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and
Slovenia. It was quite an achievement: a mere fifteen years after the Soviet
implosion and the whole of Europe was prostrate under the American heel.
The Obama administration extended the biggest expansionist push in the
history of the world into North Africa with the regime change operation in
Libya, and later Syria. Somalia was attacked, our alliance with the
murderous ruler of Ethiopia was buttressed, and Africom was beefed up
considerably in anticipation of future interventions. Iraq, which had
temporarily slipped out of our fingers, was re-invaded. And on the European
front, a regime change operation in Ukraine, where US-funded sock-puppets
and their neo-Nazi allies overthrew a democratically elected government by
force and staged a confrontation with the Russians. Nor is that the end of
it: dont forget the "Asian pivot," an attempt to intimidate the Chinese
into kowtowing to Washington by inciting its neighbors and funding
"pro-democracy" demonstrators in Hong Kong.
All this from a President who had been elected as a "peace" candidate!
We dont have a foreign policy? The idiotic Paul Ryan and the rest of the
clowns who inhabit the Washington Beltway know perfectly well what our
foreign policy is all about. Who could miss it? Since the demise of the
Soviet Union our one aim has been the subjugation of as much of the world as
we can possibly afford to gobble up and were not bothering with such
niceties as table manners. Chew it up and gulp it down that, in essence,
is our foreign policy.
Next on the menu: Iran and Russia, the only two big states that show any
sign of resistance to the American hegemon. While it looks like President
Obama would rather avoid a military confrontation with Tehran, the sincerity
of the Americans and their allies in seeking a peaceful solution to the
standoff over Irans nonexistent nuclear weapons program is doubtful at
best. And with the Clinton Restoration waiting in the wings, the longevity
of such an agreement if it even comes to pass is not something to bet
the farm on.
Washingtons real target is and always has been Russia: with their nuclear
arsenal and deep spiritual antipathy to the West, the Russians pose the
biggest threat to the Americans unipolar conceit. In this sense, the cold
war never really ended. There was a brief interruption immediately after the
Soviet collapse: Boris Yeltsins drunken rule gave free rein to outright
criminals who "privatized" Russian state assets and turned the country into
an oligarchic basket case. However, the emergence of Vladimir Putin signaled
an end to the looting and set the country on the road to some kind of order
and a fresh confrontation with the West.
Who or what can stop the American Borg from destroying and assimilating
everything in its path? While we cant know the future, what we can know is
that such a purely destructive course cannot be indefinitely maintained.
Somethings gotta give, as the old song goes: whether its the financial
time-bomb ticking away at the heart of the American Empire or some other
catastrophe, natural or man-made. For the sake of the long suffering peoples
of the earth, lets hope it comes sooner rather than later.
Justin Raimondo is an American author and the editorial director of
Antiwar.com.
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
_______________________________________________
Ugandanet mailing list
[email protected]
http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet
UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including
attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way.
---------------------------------------
