tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post4534257169298125074..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Reflections on US Foreign Policy in the Age of EmpireDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-52143868544962499452018-09-17T14:51:42.515-04:002018-09-17T14:51:42.515-04:00I believe it was George H. W. Bush in the last few...I believe it was George H. W. Bush in the last few weeks in office who sent the troops into Somalia. While the motives were good, unfortunately there was no possibility of a political solution. And without that political solution there could be no exit strategy. Hence the fallout for a bad exit fell on Clinton, not Bush.That Liberal Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911555670896844672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-62947374256820802622018-09-15T06:42:32.427-04:002018-09-15T06:42:32.427-04:00So will gen xers be like silents, Colin Powell sim...So will gen xers be like silents, Colin Powell similar Gabi Tulsard, veteran of a failed foreign war decrying imperial policy, demanding restraint, withdrawal? Is the Russophobia periodic faddish thing in America to satisfy bloodlust, hysteria need, a la panem et circe, Roman Colosseum, Christians against lions, style? A full court press against the 'Eurasian Alliance' via sanctions, tariffs at all levels and saber rattling, proxy wars on the flanks, breaking of treaties while in parallel to that breaking with old alliances like to obtain more pliable friends, trading Germans in for Poles, Ukrainianns and Turks for Kurds, hoping for a new level of engagement and influence on a united Korean peninnsula as in perhaps a modernizing post communist Vietnam, democratic Burma. The other side is playing the same aggressive game with similar goals. Putin plays Chess, Xi plays go. Merkel is courted. Erdogan made a partner, Kim is pressured, Pakistan and India brought into the party. The. Times are heady indeed. Five eyes Anglo powers are the core on one side, Russia, China, Iran on the other. The rest is slowly up for grabs. Imperial overreach was a mistake. Nato expansion in Eastern Europe as involvement Middle East and Southeast Asia is just getting in over one's head. Brzeziinski or Nuland as Polish/Ukrainian immigrants as regime change advocates in the East just follow their subconscious demonsunllike the million Iranian immigrants potential counterevolutionaries who, I have heard, are decidedly more cautious considering the US track record since GW Bush. Not to mention the Israel/Saudi coalition/political action committee in Washington against non fanatic regimes in the Middle East to create permanent chaos ensuring dominion. Every idiot with a grudge on earth can sell 'regime change' to Langley/foggy bottom. I suspect that once the very predictable right wing switch occurs throughout Western Europe that Salvini, Kurz, Le Pen, AFD will all get their comeuppance by Soros supported plots, first of all Poland, Hungary of course. The planned coup in Washington itself of course was running even before the last election and is a true 3 ringed circus. That the Deep State had trouble inserting one of their own into office for the umpteenth time is a true scandal. Grooming of the elite cadre is otherwise so routine in upper castes. <br /><br />I wonder if Dreamworks could produce a good gift gas attack video for Idlib to serve as false flag pretext for Nato to bomb the desert ineffectively like last time or if they will let it slide and let their 50,000 terrorist friends flee over the border to Iraq in auir conditioned greyhounds or Toyot Pickups speciallly imported. Wag the Dog was such a silly comedy but so true. Why let a good crisis go to waste to prove imperial weakness once again? Putin and our lower ranking officers know how to avoid real conflict and satisfy Western video game fantasies.Ed Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753383765150492163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-14599276557074386522018-09-14T10:49:43.238-04:002018-09-14T10:49:43.238-04:00Professor
Great summary. Thanks for publishing it....Professor<br />Great summary. Thanks for publishing it.<br />My own view is that the Empires of the West should have been maintained at all costs. <br />I know that that seems to be an extreme view, given the interpretations generally put on the history of the 20th Century, mostly by the West itself. <br /><br />But there it is now. <br /><br />It seems to me that that view was the right one all along, but Western politics, not mainly American at all but rather mostly British, had turned against Western imperialism over the course of the 19th Century, not following America's so called lead at all, but rather its own sad traditions of radicalism.<br /><br />Your passage below, while tempting to many and in some ways to me, seems to me no longer to be viable, either, for us, going forward now, or for anyone else, for a variety of reasons:<br /><br />"We must eventually be forced to the conclusion that we might have reached long ago: that the Muslim world, like the European one, will have to work out its political development on its own."<br /><br />These worlds will not, cannot now in fact, be allowed to work out anything strictly for themselves on their own, even if they might, at one time, have seemed to have been able to do so.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com