The reach of the (U.S.) doctrine, and its dangers, were well described in an article in Foreign Affairs by Professor G. John Ikenberry of Georgetown University.
The grand strategy, he wrote, "is a general depreciation of international rules, treaties, and security partnerships."
Yet it was those very relationships that have so benefited this country since World War II.
"The secret of the United States' long brilliant run as the world's leading state," Professor Ikenberry wrote, was its ability and willingness to exercise power within alliance and multinational frameworks, which made its power and agenda more acceptable to allies and other key states around the world.
He warned that unchecked US power, shorn of legitimacy and disentangled from the postwar norms and institutions of the international order, will usher in a more hostile international system, making it far harder to achieve American interests.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15790
-Dusty Davo from Derrimut
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Anyone interested in the poor bastards stuck between one violent nutter and another? http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0321-04.htm |
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The US is in this war for a number of reasons: control of oil; boosting its economy thru its buoyant military industrial complex; testing its WMD's; training and testing its military; keeping other states in-line with its demonstration of force and fraud; the impotence of world opinion; its contempt for all; etc There is no good reason in this list to be thinking the US is in Iraq for the Iraqis. And i'm not saying you have to be a conspiracy theorist to think these are weighed up in the pentagon, nor are you automatically an ally of the "compromised" French et el. You just have to be aware that your motives are not those of the worlds only superpower who shows every intent and every ability to keep it that way. JOE VINDALOO |
