The Impulsiveness of US Power
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s impulsive use of power is a danger to
America and to the world. Arrogant Washington politicians and crazed
neoconservatives are screaming that the US must shoot down Russian aircraft
that are operating against the US-supplied forces that have brought death and
destruction to Syria, unleashing millions of refugees on Europe, in
Washington’s effort to overthrow the Syrian government.
Even my former CSIS colleague, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
normally a sensible if sometimes misguided person, has written in the Financial
Times that Washington should deliver an ultimatum to Russia to “cease and
desist from military actions that directly affect American assets.” By
“American assets,” Brzezinski means the jihadist forces that Washington has
sicced on Syria.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43059.htm
Brzezinski’s claim that “Russia must work with, not
against, the US in Syria” is false. The fact of the matter is that “the US must
work with, not against Russia in Syria,” as Russia controls the situation, is
in accordance with international law, and is doing the right thing.
Washington’s position is that only Washington decides
and that Washington intends to unleash yet more chaos on the world in the hope
that it reaches Russia.
I guess no one in hubristic and arrogant Washington
was listening when Putin said in his
UN speech on September 28: “We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in
the world.”
The intolerable state of affairs is the chaos that
Washington has brought to the Middle East, chaos that threatens to expand into
all countries with Muslim populations, and chaos from which millions of
refugees are flooding into Europe.
Not satisfied with threatening Russia with war,
Washington is preparing to send US Navy ships inside the 12-nautical-mile
territorial limit of islands created by China’s land reclamation project. The
Navy Times reports that three Pentagon officials have said on background that
“approval of the mission is imminent.”
So here we have the US government gratuitously and
provocatively threatening two nuclear powers. The Washington warmongers try to
pretend that land reclamation is “an act of regional aggression” and that
Washington is just upholding international law by protecting “freedom of
navigation.”
By “freedom of navigation,” Washington means
Washington’s ability to control all sea lanes.
After all of Washington’s violations of international law and war crimes during
the last 14 years, Washington’s claim to be protecting international law is
hilarious.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former director of the US
Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence organization, said
that Washington needs to understand that “Russia also has foreign policy;
Russia also has a national security strategy” and stop crossing Russia’s “red
lines.” https://www.rt.com/news/317710-russia-red-lines-flynn/ Gen. Flynn thus
joins with Patrick J. Buchanan as two voices of sense and sensibility in
Washington.
Together they stand against the arrogance and hubris that will
destroy us. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43055.htm
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books areThe Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West
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