America Breaks the Middle East » by #ANDREW_LEVINE CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/29/america-breaks-the-middle-east
America’s goals in the Middle East are clear: it wants Middle Eastern countries to serve the needs of American capitalists and to advance their interests; and it wants to impose a pax Americana, a stable regional order maintained under American domination.
It has been this way since even before the end of World War II.
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For America’s part, it is not a case of malevolence for malevolence’s sake. The people who determine national interests in capitalist societies are seldom evil. But, in their world, what counts are oil, guns and money, not people – at least not people who are neither economically powerful nor politically connected.
America’s goals are clear; what is unclear is how to realize them, how to get from here to there.
Our foreign policy establishment has never been good at developing clear and coherent strategies. This is not usually a problem, the way it would be in other countries; the United States can throw its weight around enough to get by on force alone.
However, brawn cannot substitute for brains entirely – or forever. Even a country that strides the world like a colossus sometimes needs a plan.
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The people running the show in the Bush-Obama War on Terror (or whatever the Obama administration chooses to call it) are inept and in way over their heads.
And so, the United States muddles along – from crisis to crisis. For at least the past decade, there has been no #coherence, and very little rhyme or reason, to any of it.
The last more or less coherent strategy America deployed was the neoconservative one that took hold in the first years of the Bush-Cheney administration. It was a disaster.
#Etats-unis (absence de) #stratégie