America to Rethink of its Role in Global Affairs
27 October 2017By Mahboob A Khawaja
America under President Trump continues to foster an agenda of extreme
perplexity, triviality and confusion in dealing with urgent global affairs. If
the administration were to learn from the history, it must be candid, focused
and redirect its strengths and weaknesses from the past and usher a new
strategic direction of change and adaptability to the present and futuristic
challenges of collaborative understanding with all the global powers. This
should include the conflict in Syria, Iran nuclear deal, agreement on climate
change and pursuing a balanced approach to Israel-Palestine issues.
How to Comprehend the Contradictions of the US Policy Behavior?
Lacking the visionary leadership, President Obama lost precious time and
opportunities to deliver "Yes, We Can." Now, President Trump is making
headlines with inherent stagnation of inner look on the current global
affairs. Every day is becoming a strange new media theater of absurdity, not
distinguishing between the problems and solutions. American politics endured
wide range of human, intellectual, political and material losses because of
the wrong thinking, wrong actions and dubious performance of the former Obama
and Bush administrations. The war agenda destroyed America's capacity and
credibility as an influential global power. The perpetrators of prolonged war
agenda floating above the normal mindset must be abnormal - insane -
irresponsible, utterly individualistic paranoid to make such move on behalf of
the people who elected them for change and peacemaking.
World affairs are a complex discipline and often require serious and impartial
mindset to see the issues objectively, rationally and dispassionately. The US
Trump administration is uncertain and lacks imagination and repeating the
blunders of the Bush era - acting like immature kids who get mad while playing
with toys - behaving like the sadistic Razor King we read in European history
who broiled his enemies and enjoyed witnessing the live killings. Strangely,
Obama lied about prospective change and opening up a dialogue with the Muslim
world. This was a fiction, not a fact of policy shift to get elected. Often
change bring hopes and optimism for something different - an escape from the
cruel obsession of the few to something more conducive to the human nature.
But you can only expect this from rational beings having fullest sense of
moral, intellectual and professional accountability to the society that
bestows legitimacy to their role and official standing, certainly not from
those who appear to have lost all basic norms of morality and civilization.
Julia Dalton ("Is Obama the Trojan Horse, A Psychopath, A Bad Boyfriend or all
Three?" OpenEdNews: 1/07/2012), a strong former supporter of Obama notes that
President Obama was more of a psychopath and a Trojan horse than being an
author of Audacity of Hope, and imaginative manipulator of "Yes We Can" to win
the elections.
Leaders or War Criminals to be Held Accountable
After the atrocities of the 2nd World War, the allied forces captured and
tried many Nazis for crimes against humanity. Now, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and
Tony Blair and many others have been identified by the Kualalumpur
International Commission on Crimes against Humanity as involved in the crimes
against humanity for the killing of millions of innocent civilians men, women
and children in Iraq. On June 28, 2005 at the Berlin Strategic Seminar
("America's Indispensable Role in Securing the Future of Civilization"
Executive Intelligence Review: 7/8/2005), American intellectual Lyndon
LaRouche offered the following observations about President Bush and Cheney's
insanity to make them unfit for the policy making and leadership office:
"Now, the United States Constitution provides for impeachment. The intrinsic
basis for impeachment, is not conviction for some crime. That is not
sufficient basis for impeachment, because the question of the Presidency of
the United States is the question of an institution, not of a person. But, if
the person who occupies that institution is clinically insane, or is otherwise
incompetent to serve, that is sufficient grounds for a charge of impeachment
and for his removal from office. On the other hand, we have a Vice President,
who is not necessarily a psychopath, but is a sociopath. The man must be
removed from office. What we have now, as a result of the actions and
continuing actions in the Senate, we have a bloc, being exerted by the U.S.
Senate, against the dangers intrinsic in the incumbency of these two
creatures, and the people who control them. And therefore, if the world is to
be saved, these two creatures must be kept under control and removed from
office—not four years or three years from now, but in the immediate future."
Why did Obama not take action to bring all these culprits to justice? Did
Obama have similar characteristics and features of insanity like Bush, Blair
and Cheney? If so, should the Norwegian Nobel Committee have revoked the Peace
Prize given to Obama without performance and accountability? Julia Dalton
finds it a fact of life that Obama is a wrong guy to occupy the post of
president of the US:
"I know it's hard to admit you made a mistake. I get it. You really believed
this guy was "the one" and he is the one for the 1%: Wall Street, the too big
to fail banks, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex,
big oil, big pharma, i.e. the corporate fascist state he's so gingerly locking
into place…………And, therefore, I feel it's my duty to do an intervention. For
those of you still deluding yourselves, who still can't face reality I suggest
therapy or better yet maybe pick up a copy of "He's just Not That into You."
Nothing is going to last unto eternity- for sure; Obama faced many limitations
and overburden too, the pinch of self-exalted individualistic opportunitism,
so common amongst all the political contenders of public goodness, civility
and humanity. They all pretend like the puppets do, politicians are no
different a specie but the same kind. Julia Dalton thinks so:
"The Obama brand is collapsing just as the Bush brand before him became so
craven even the most deluded had to recognize the fraud that had been
perpetrated upon the American people"
Could America Make a Navigational Change for a Peaceful Future?
Paul Craig Roberts ("the Next War on Washington's Agenda." OpenEdnews:
01/12/2012), spells out the ingrained political cynicism governing the
Washington's based military-industrial complex of which Mr. Obama was the
latest willing participatory leader.
You wonder, what is this all fuss about? President Trump as of October 14,
2017 is revisiting the traditional belligerent strategy against Iran by
refusal to testify the Iranian compliance on the international nuclear
agreement. It opens up new suspicious weakness in US policy behavior- who
could trust the American behavior even in situation of solid global agreement?
Paul Craig Roberts ("the Next War on Washington's Agenda."), noted three major
reasons for the US policy pursuit against Iran:
"One is the neoconservative ideology, adopted by the US government that calls
for the US to use its superior military and economic position to achieve world
hegemony. This goal appeals to American hubris and to the power and profit
that it serves….A second factor is Israel's desire to eliminate all support
for the Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Israel's goal is
to seize all of Palestine and the water resources of southern Lebanon.
Eliminating Iran removes all obstacles to Israel's expansion…..
It is unthinkable and irrational stance that if Iran develops the nuclear
know-how and capacity and that it could threaten anyone in the region or
beyond. We live in an age of actions-reactions and nuclear reprisals - no one
would like to be candidate for the first strike to ensure self-destruction,
and those who possess the nuclear capability know it well, understand its
disastrous consequences to use the nuclear weapons. The North Korean nuclear
crisis is a current example in global affairs. American leadership knows it
well too. Imagine, if the Shah Reza Pahlavi, the absolute king of Iran was
alive and buying the weapons from the US, would America move to strangle Iran?
No, certainly NO. Isn't this another myth of the continued bogus War on
Terrorism raged on the false pretext of the WMD in Iraq?
Mankind looks for Hope for peace and co-existence amongst the divergent
cultures and nations of the world. Global politics is not a system of moral
principles or intellectual and political values but often a game - a cruel
drama - a puppet show often staged to appease the few draculas - a psychopath
puzzle of few insane people who had nothing useful to contribute to the
mankind except drudgery, deceit, lies and inborn deceptions - the previous net
outcome of this thinking was the continuing bogus War on Terrorism. Wars are
planned, conspired and are the outcome of few cruel monsters - egomaniac
mindsets, not of the electoral consensus of the rational beings dreaming of
life as a gift from God, progressive in civility and nobility of thoughts and
behaviors and being accountable to the rest of the humanity. The Europeans
have come to realize these harsh facts after centuries of wide ranging
insanity and Two World Wars and killing of millions and millions of fellow
Europeans just to maintain racial superiority, national borders, rule of the
few obsessed with individualistic power. Should the Americans not learn from
the annals of the darkest chapters of the modern European history? Paul Craig
Roberts attempts to reflect on this much needed historical Essence of Learning
and the Urgent need for a Navigational Change:
"We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why is our
government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What purpose,
whose purpose is being served? Certainly not ours…………Where do we go from here?
If not to nuclear destruction, Americans must wake up. Football games, porn,
and shopping malls are one thing. Survival of human life is another.
Washington, that is, "representative government," consists only of a few
powerful vested interests. These private interests, not the American people,
control the US government. That is why nothing that the US government does
benefits the American people."
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict
resolution-international affairs with keen interests in Islamic-Western
comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications
including Global Peace and Conflict Management: Man and Humanity in Search of
New Thinking. Germany, May 2012. His forthcoming publications are entitled:
One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict
Resolution; and Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution: Approaches to
Understand the Current Issues and Future-Making, Germany, 2017).
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