Three
articles were published recently in which foreign policy as well as the matter
of war and peace were discussed. All three appear to urge America it must seek
to avoid committing the mistakes of the past. But the articles also show how
confused America is at this time, which is a good reason for us to delve into
the country's past in search for clues as to how the superpower came to be
where it is today.
One
article came under the title: “What does Washington Want From China?” written
by Christopher R. Hill, and published on May 11, 2010 in the online magazine,
Foreign Policy. A second article came under the title: “A Cold War With China
Would be a mistake,” written by Richard N. Haass and published on May 11, 2020
on the website of Council on Foreign Relations. A third article came under the
title: “Unrealistic threat inflation with Iran is risky,” written by Bonnie
Kristian and published on May 15, 2020 in the Washington Examiner.
Here
is what we need to remember while reading these articles:
For
a few years, at the end of the Second World War, triumphant America became the
natural leader of the world, if only because it all came about by sheer luck.
This happened because the colonial powers of Europe got too greedy and began to
fight each other for the spoils that seemed to dwindle in the face of an
Industrial Revolution that was gathering steam, and constantly called for
evermore natural resources to feed it. When the Europeans that had diminished
everyone on Earth, went on to destroy each other, America alone was left
standing on a desolate planet, ready to lead a world from whose migrant people
it was itself made.
America
sat undisputed in that position till the decade of the 1950s at the dawn of
which (August 1949) the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear weapon. This
was followed 8 years later (October 1957) by the launch of the Soviet Sputnik,
the first artificial satellite to go into orbit around the Earth.
It
did not take long for America's latent inferiority complex to come to the
surface. This difficult-to-overcome reality facilitated America's fall under
the hypnotic spell of such sophisticated “world leaders” as Winston Churchill.
Keenly aware of the mess that the rival powers of Europe had made of the world
as they colonized it and then fought each other, Churchill had an idea: Pit
America against the Soviet Union, and make himself pilot in charge of guiding
the American ship of state toward the fulfillment of a British and a personal
agenda.
To
those ends, Churchill incited the political class in America to start the Cold
War, which itself necessitated the gradual transformation of America's foreign
policy and military posture. This happened, and was responsible for the rise of
centers of power in America. Taking the lead and snatching powers from the
political class, one center of power dabbled in foreign policy and one dabbled
in military-industrial affairs.
But
while this transformation was taking place in America, something serious and
consequential was unfolding in East Asia. In Vietnam, that was a colony of
France, the latter was taking a beating at the hands of Vietnamese freedom
fighters that had decided it was time to rid the country of the in-situ form of
slavery that colonization really was.
And
so, the French took advantage of the softening work that Churchill had done on
the Americans, and got the latter to walk into the Vietnamese quagmire while
they were extricating themselves from it. Whereas this maneuvering was
happening outside of America, the foreign policy group in America was
consolidated itself into a solidly established institution, while the
military-industrial complex was consolidating itself into a hawkish lobby to be
reckoned with.
Moreover,
while all of this was brewing in East Asia and Washington, the Jews thought
that if Churchill could do it for Britain and if the French could do it for
themselves, they too can do it for Israel, their permanent home of the heart away
from America, their temporary home of convenience.
Turning
thought into practice, the Jews sabotaged America's war effort in Vietnam,
causing the superpower to lose and be humiliated big time at the hands of a
primitive power. The Jews also worked by the method of stealthy infiltration in
the manner of the Fifth Columnists, on steering both the Foreign policy
establishment of America and its military-industrial complex, into implementing
Israel's agenda in the Middle East.
Since
that time, the Soviet Union collapsed, and for a short period of time, America
reigned as the sole superpower. But then the global landscape gradually began
to take on the look of a multi-polar world with China, a resurrected Russia,
and a European Union challenging America economically, militarily or both.
With
this in mind, my friend, read the three articles and try to determine what
motivated each author to write their piece the way that he or she did.
Does
Richard Haass worry about America being humiliated again in the Far East? Or
does he want America to pivot back to the Middle East to protect Israel?
Is
Bonnie Kristian motivated by her innate humanity or by her Christian
upbringing?