Peter Vincent Pry seems to deplore what he calls the end of
the American century. He doesn't actually predict it but he asks the question:
“The end of the American Century?” In fact, this is the title of the article he
wrote; one that also came under the subtitle: “Obama has curtailed the U.S. role as
guarantor of peace.” It was published on October 12, 2015 in The Washington
Times.
You can see in the subtitle why the writer considers the
decline of America
a bad thing. It is that he believes the country brought peace to the world, and
has maintained it since World War Two. But that's precisely where a serious
question ought to be posed. Having involved itself in something like four or
five dozen wars in the 70 years that separate our time from WW II, and having
been the initiator of most of these wars, can someone honestly claim that America brought
peace to the world?
Vincent Pry says that the idea of America becoming a benign global
superpower and build a world order that's based on political and economic
freedom – first came to Henry Luce as far back as the year 1941. His vision
began to take shape at the end of the Second World War in 1945 and lasted for
seventy years. But there is now a question mark as to whether America will
retain its position much longer.
To explain why America
has been successful during that time but may not be so lucky going forward, he
seems to pick up the narrative of history from when the Cold War ended with the
collapse of the old Soviet Union in 1991. The
problem is that he tells of no historical event that may have unfolded between
then and now. The only historical reference he makes to that period comes at
the end of the article where he says: “Obama has destroyed the credibility of the
United States
as the security guarantor of the free world.” But Obama did not occupy the
White House till January 2009; what about the rest of the time?
Instead of discussing history, Peter Pry lays out a list of
the things that supposedly went wrong for America . These would be the things
which, in his view, contributed to the country's decline. He begins with this
assertion: “In 2015, American power and influence is in decline … [other]
actors are on the march...” And he goes on to discuss the list item by item.
The first item is this: “Russia has annexed the Crimea and
invaded Ukraine … it is embarked on a buildup of nuclear and conventional
forces against a U.S. and European NATO allies that are militarily a pale
shadow of the alliance that prevailed during the Cold War.”
He goes on: “Russia 's
return to the Middle East ... successfully displacing the United States
with military strikes on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels, may mark the exact date of
the death of the American Century. Russia
has replaced the U.S. as the
dominant power in the Middle East , in a world
still dependent on oil … a decisive humiliation, canceling the credibility of
guarantees to contain aggression and sustain the American Century.”
What the author has omitted is mention of the role that Israel was supposed to have played protecting America 's
interests in the region. In fact, the reason why America
spent so much money, lives, prestige, political capital and standing in the
eyes of the local populations and those beyond, is that Israel was going to return in spades what it was
receiving from America .
Instead of doing that, the Jews of Israel have, for 70
years, been pocketing all the goodies that came from America, using the money
to live well, the diplomatic protection to act freely, and the weapons to turn
up the hatred of the non-Jews who cannot defend themselves – all that to tell
the neighbors in words and in deeds that come hell or high water, America is
kept so tightly inside the pocket of World Jewry, it will give up on the American
Century before cutting ties with Israel.
That's what explains the items on the Pry list, among them
how and why: “Iran has
prevailed over the United States
in toppling a U.S. ally in Yemen and has virtually taken over Iraq .” Why
“terrorism grows ever stronger.” And why Russia
has made a triumphant re-entry into the Middle East .