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America to Rethink of its Role in Global Affairs
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D.
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.”
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