The USA and World Disorder

The failure of Israel against the Lebanese resistance during the summer of 2006 marked the end of the myth of Zionist hegemony in the Middle East.

When will humanity be able to escape from unjust conflicts to establish a world where people can live together and take care of the fundamental problems for youth: education, employment and culture? The United States and President Barack Obama will be judged based on foreign policy. In this 21st century, all people need to see the world’s greatest power establish peace and not engage in wars. History records the facts. After the Vietnam War, the United States is today involved directly in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; indirectly in Palestine, based on the massive military aid accorded to Israel. The U.S. is implicated in conflicts that seemed lost before they started. For the first time in 65 years, the American ambassador to Japan participated in commemorations of the bombing of Hiroshima that killed more than 250,000 on Aug. 6, 1945. However, the logic of war still seems to dominate minds in the West. The Obama administration, which in contrast made nuclear disarmament one of its priorities, does not seem to be embarking on the path to peaceful settlement of conflicts. Nevertheless, one does not lose hope.

Drawing on the Lessons of History

The world association of Mayors for Peace, meeting in Hiroshima, called for the immediate opening of international negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2020. Since 1945, a dozen powers have monopolized weapons of mass destruction and imposed an unjust order. In this context, Israel possesses several hundred nuclear bombs and tries to divert attention by accusing Iran of every kind of wrongdoing. General Giap said that “the colonizer is a bad student; he doesn’t draw lessons from history.” Apparently, a new war is being prepared against Iran, a substantial action planned by the system and its weaponized arm Israel, to confirm the world order. This will have grave repercussions in the world, notably in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Middle East, all unstable regions. All U.S. allies must help to avoid the worst.

Some American politicians don’t seem to draw lessons from history, just like former colonial countries in Europe don’t recognize clearly and solemnly the crimes committed under their former empire. It is not a matter of repentance, but of recognition in order to go into the future on a peaceful foundation. Some great powers continue to practice double-standard politics, to want to dominate other countries in new ways and subscribe to a bellicose logic. However, strands of Western opinion do exist that oppose war and arrogance. Recently, in the House of Representatives, 102 Democratic members of Congress, conscious of the risks, rejected their president’s request to continue to finance the war in Afghanistan. The support of nearly all Republican representatives was necessary for the House to accept the $33 billion in supplementary military expenses that the administration was calling for.

Nine years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, American public opinion and their representatives in Congress are overcome by a growing weariness. In the midst of moral and economic crisis, all doubts are permitted. No military victory is in sight, the Taliban insurgency continues to grow, just as the number of deaths within the contingent of American forces increases. Today around 100,000 men are deployed in Afghanistan, a mountainous country of more than 1 million square kilometers. Nearly 70 soldiers were killed in combat this last July, the deadliest month that America has known in Afghanistan since the start of the war. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who will be pulled out of Iraq are anticipated to go to Afghanistan, a quagmire.

For many observers, the majority of the insurgents, as obscurantist as they are, have entered into war in response to the violence committed by the occupiers and are rebelling on a nationalist reflex to protect their traditional Pashtun culture, not to impose Sharia on the entire planet, nor even to re-establish a caliphate in the Arab-Muslim world, as the extremists make it seem. In the U.S., a country with a culture of science and modernity, people realize that the strategy presented by Obama during his December 2009 speech at West Point Military Academy is no longer effective.

As stated by Democrat John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Obama administration renounced the idea of establishing a “Jeffersonian democracy” in Afghanistan — the neoconservative propaganda that seduced a part of the international community during the Bonn conference in December 2001, devoted to the “reconstruction” of the country. The Americans risk leaving a civil war behind them, as was done in Iraq. The Zionists, who often serve them as special “advisors,” are themselves in disarray, but they infect Western politics nonetheless.

The damage is immense, and wild liberalism, under the false pretext of human rights, attempts to impose a hedonistic and perverse vision of a society of unbridled consumption on the entire planet, to serve a minority. This type of society commercializes life and dehumanizes and undermines noble Abrahamic values. The war is not only economic, it is moral and ethical. Considered quite rightly by many objective Jews as anti-Semitic, Zionism is at the vanguard of this fight against humanity. It is not by chance that Islamophobia is its odious weapon. The principal moral resistance against the commercialization and dehumanization is Islam, even if the Muslims are today divided and in a weakened and sometimes reactionary state, instead of being part of the creativity and production of ideas and wealth. The U.S. needs Arab countries that prioritize rationality and not archaism. They need each other, for the stability of the world.

Instead of Addressing the Causes of Conflicts, They Focus on the Effects

In spite of dominance, Machiavellianism and brutalities, the Israeli failure in the face of the Lebanese resistance during the summer of 2006 marked the end of the Zionist myth and the dominance of the Middle East. The military, economic and diplomatic map of the region is no longer the same. Arab regimes allied to the U.S. have been worn out in a dramatic fashion. The war against Gaza in winter 2009-2010 served as a smokescreen just like the future war against Iran: to attempt to obscure the fact that Israel is at an impasse. A recent brusque increase in tensions, notably at the Lebanese-Israeli border, shows that the Zionists are looking for diversions and cannot live in peace. They need wars and permanent tensions in a region that they have rendered inflammable. They prevent, with the help of lobbies in the U.S., all prospect of negotiated settlement. They vote for the extreme right, suppress the Palestinians and militarize their country. They aim for escalation in order to impose their point of view during negotiations — infinite surrenders by a discredited Palestinian Authority.

The Israelis worry about good relations between Turkey, Syria and Iran. China and Russia are watching; the Middle East does not seem to be their priority. In this unjust, irrational context that contains so little wisdom, instead of addressing the causes of the conflicts and bringing hope for a new Andalusia, Westerners focus on the effects. The new British prime minister recently declared that Pakistan is exporting terrorism. Pakistan and its population are victims of the terrorism of the weak, an unjustifiable transborder phenomenon and of injustice and world disorder. To exacerbate the tensions in the world is to favor the logic of war. More than ever we must help Obama to impose diplomatic solutions, and thus, to address the economic questions of our time.

An organized and systematic campaign of misinformation about, and denigration of, Muslims is seeking to regressively impose a homogenizing vision of Western culture that stigmatizes the culture of others. There are currents in the West and the East that are working to create opposition between the U.S. and the Muslim world, when in fact they should be excellent partners. In spite of the sometimes blind reactions and visibly reactionary practices in many Islamic societies, contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Koran, Islam is one of the few remaining ancient cultures that resists the excesses of living in this day and age. In addition, it seeks for everyone to live together and in balance. In many domains, dialogue, exchanges and cooperation will be fruitful for all. The Muslim world needs to find its rationalist spirit again without losing its roots, and the U.S. needs to assume its role as a global beacon based on a project of civilization, not only by the law of the strongest. Nothing fundamental puts American ideals in opposition to those of Muslims, beyond certain specificities of each. Diversity is richness. Repression is a failure of prevention.

There needs to be an international consensus and the right to establish hegemony. The decisive aspects of this right are credibility and the economic and cultural supremacy of the model, all while taking account of the multiplicity of cultures. We need a superpower capable of reason and not of arbitrariness. The United States must transform its superiority into a guide for the international community, their strength into justice and their power into morality. Muslim countries must modernize to change their power struggle and to learn to explain their authentic values, which are not contradictory to those of the citizens of the world who are attached to liberty and to the link between faith and reason. Harmful ideological influences, like Zionism, scheming and alliances against nature cannot prevail against the desire for peace, wisdom and the general interest.