A New American Age

There is a saying in Western political speeches: “towards a new American age.” It is not a theoretical saying, but it shapes a clear and specific strategy for intelligence and the governance of the United States. This first appeared in the public sphere in 2007 when Gen. Wesley Clark presented a detailed account to the Commonwealth Club in California, which unveiled secret documents from the U.S. Department of Defense going back to 2001. The documents said the ministry was reshaping the Middle East and North Africa, beginning by organizing campaigns to undermine stability in the larger countries (many of the documents said that this should start in Iraq) by inciting various factions against each other and not letting a peaceful solution arise to restore stability.

As a matter of fact, this strategy is just a detailed translation of the theory of creative chaos, which has prevailed — to varying degrees — in most of the Arab World (Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain and Lebanon). The advantage of forbidding a final solution is so that the country remains difficult to kill and evades life in a process of continued attrition, ensuring sectarian, religious, racial and ethnic sensitivities. On the surface, there are other transient alliances for all those based on the ground when it is necessary to continue the conflict or when there is an awareness of the plot and a need to address it.

Does that amount to an indictment of the Arab revolutions? No, but it is an objective view of the process to circumvent them to prevent them from succeeding or from failing and to keep the devastating state of conflict between factions in all communities.

The revolutions were started by sincere opponents to oppression, corruption and exclusion, but the problem is that they came out of a response to something more than consciously revolutionary and strategic. Therefore, outside forces are able to exploit them. Outside forces that have been hidden in the dark and have a clear goal and strategy framed by the United States’ strategy, which is stuck in a war to maintain its empire on a global level, starting with the Middle East. The broad outlines of this strategy do not differ with other Arab countries whether from the vulnerability to occupation, like Iraq, or NATO invasion, like Libya, or internal clashes, like other countries. We ought to look at the situation, at the hierarchy of targets, despite several means, beginning with Iraq: International destruction, restructuring a fragile state and the illusion of the first place, stirring factional strife of every type and leaving their fire to consume each other, even feeding this fire to ensure the continuation, as well as securing this by substituting a new corruption for an old one, a new despot in the place of an old one, and a new exclusionary policy for an old one. The certain variable however is to eliminate national sovereignty and unity.

Even as the walls come crashing down and we return to the way things were before the state and society, it ensures the continuation of the fire, which is already spreading to other countries for the same purpose.