American Mob Generals

Published in Resalat
(Iran) on 10 March 2010
by Hanif Ghaffari (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Ali Ebrahimi, Faculty Member of IAU, Qom Branch. Edited by Brigid Burt.
David Petraeus, U.S. troop commander in the Middle East and Central Asia, recently resorted to using harsh words against our statesmen. This kind of rhetoric has a precedent. Following their defeat on two warfronts in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. army officials apparently had no choice but to express their concealed outrage in the shape of such vicious literature.

Petraeus is a descendant of junior Bush’s legacy in Afghanistan and Iraq. Petraeus is the same non-commissioned general who never decided to understand the current events of world order. It is still widely known how Petraeus, aided by the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Cracker, submitted his unfounded reports to Congress. This led him, as a matter of fact, to be ridiculed by the American media.

Petraeus has not changed since Bush’s presidency, and Barack Obama does not differ much from his former counterpart!

Like all U.S. officials, Petraeus is well aware of the consequences of direct confrontation with Tehran. But he prefers to act as the one element of psychological war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. At times, he makes slanderous speeches behind the Islamic Republic, but such verbal attacks have no effect upon Iran, which keeps on its course of action in world order. He should be admitted as agent of the West, someone whose motion or demotion is well illustrated by invisible threads! The geopolitical situation of Iran among the Persian Gulf states and the Middle East, Iran’s large-scale population, its geographical expanse, along with Islamic ideology and independent foreign policy have strengthened Iran’s strategic position.

Under such circumstances, neither praise nor invective from people like Petraeus can affect our country! Petraeus still imagines he is the symbol of American authority but he can vaguely speak of such power! If he is so confident of U.S. military force, why has he failed to inhibit the Taliban and al-Qaida for eight years? This has gone so far to compel Obama to deploy 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.

He may be ignorant of what power means! The fact is that the U.S. inevitably resorts to maximum change in line with “minimum stability.” Yet, the Democrats, who are now in disagreement, cannot define and lead this change. Clearly, Washington currently is wrestling with the lack of mid-range strategies. Petraeus remains in suspense in such an illusive climate. Nowadays, America’s puzzle revolves around the young, crisis-affected president who is trying to come to grips with ever-growing speculation in the “multi-polar world.” We should concede that the young president and his aides have not fundamentally defined any cycle in U.S. foreign policy.

It seems Petraeus has been infected by such contagious perplexity! Finally, this non-commissioned general stands nowhere in the world order! He knows well who the real bullish men of the world are: They have been his leaders for the past eight years!


ژنرال اوباشها
1388/12/19
بزرگنمایی:
حنيف غفاري
ديويد پترائوس فرمانده نيروهاي آمريکايي در خاورميانه و آسياي مرکزي اخيرا از واژگان تند و بي ادبانه اي عليه مقامات سياسي کشورمان استفاده کرده است.اين لفاظي ها در نوع خود مسبوق به سابقه بوده و گويا مقامات ارتش ايالات متحده آمريکا متعاقب شکست در دو جبهه عراق و افغانستان چاره اي جز بروز اين خشم خفته،آن هم در قالب چنين ادبيات سخيفي ندارند.به هر حال پترائوس وارث خلف ميراث بوش پسر در افغانستان و عراق مي باشد.پترائوس همان ژنرال بي ستاره اي است که هيچ گاه در صدد درک وقايع موجود در نظام بين الملل بر نيامده است.هنوز همگان به ياد دارند که پترائوس چگونه همراه با رايان کراکر سفير سابق ايالات متحده در بغداد گزارشهاي دروغين خود را تقديم کنگره آمريکا کرد و اتفاقا مورد تمسخر رسانه هاي آمريکايي قرار گرفت!پترائوس همان پترائوس است .او کوچکترين تغييري نسبت به دوران رياست جمهوري بوش پسر نکرده است،چنانچه باراک اوباما نيز تفاوتي با همتاي قبلي خود ندارد!
واقعيت امر اين است که پترائوس مانند همه مقامات آمريکايي نسبت به عواقب و تبعات هرگونه تقابل مستقيم با تهران آگاه است اما همچنان ترجيح مي دهد به عنوان يکي از اجزاي جنگ رواني عليه جمهوري اسلامي ايران وارد عمل شود.پترائوس هر از گاهي حملات لفظي تندي را متوجه جمهوري اسلامي ايران مي کند،اين در حالي است که چنين حملاتي تاثيري بر ادامه مسير تهران در نظام بين الملل ندارد.بايد پترائوس را به عنوان يکي از مهره هاي غرب پذيرفت،مهره اي که ايستايي يا حرکت آن با نخهايي نامرئي ترسيم مي شود!موقعيت ژئوپليتيک ايران در ميان کشورهاي منطقه خليج فارس و خاورميانه ،کثرت جمعيت، موقعيت و وسعت جغرافيايي سرزمين ايران، به همراه ايدئولوژي اسلامي و سياست خارجي مستقل آن، موجب تقويت جايگاه استراتژيک ايران شده است.در چنين شرايطي نه تعريف و تمجيد و نه لفاظي هاي امثال پترائوس براي کشورمان محلي از اعراب ندارد!
پترائوس هنوز تصور مي کند نماد قدرت ايالات متحده آمريکاست اما مشخص نيست که وي از کدام قدرت سخن به ميان مي آورد!اگر پترائوس اين قدر نسبت به توان نظامي ايالات متحده آمريکا اطمينان دارد،پس چرا هشت سال در مهار طالبان و القاعده ناکام مانده و حتي اوباما ناچار به ارسال سي هزار نيروي اضافه به افغانستان گرديده است؟شايد پترائوس هنوز معني قدرت را نمي داند! واقعيت امراين است که ايالات متحده آمريکا ناچار است در راستاي “ثبات حداقلي ”خود به تغييري حداکثري روي آورد. اما فعلادموکراتهاي چندتکه نمي توانند اين تغييررا تعريف و راهبري نمايند. نبايدفراموش کرد که واشنگتن هم اکنون با فقدان راهبردهاي ميان مدت دست و پنجه نرم مي کند.پترائوس نيز در ميان اين فضاي وهم آلود معلق مانده است . معماي امروز آمريکا حول رئيس جمهور جوان و کاخ سفيد بحران زده اي مي چرخد که با انگاره هاي روبه رشد “جهان چند قطبي” دست و پنجه نرم مي کند. بايد اذعان نمود که اوباماي جوان و مشاوران او اساسا سيکل و چرخه اي در سياست خارجي واشنگتن تعريف
نکرده اند.گويا اين سردرگمي به پترائوس نيز سرايت کرده است !
در نهايت اينکه ژنرال بي ستاره به هيچ عنوان جايگاهي در نظام بين الملل ندارد !او به خوبي مي داند که قلدرمسلکان واقعي جهان امروز چه کساني هستند:همان کساني که طي هشت سال اخير روساي وي بوده اند!

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