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Na kuwao.bea displaced kule Libya Afghanstan Iraq nk
 
Mungu si Athuman....
 

Hii article ya kitambo, Ni Joe Biden ndani ya Jarida la Wall Street Journal.

Maelezo ni marefu ila kati ya hao kuna haya.

1.

Imagine my surprise when a Wall Street Journal editorial appointed me dean of the Pat Buchanan school of neo-isolationism. My credentials? Believing that the Pentagon’s new strategy, America as “Globocop” - could render the United States a hollow superpower.


All agree we need the military capacity to defend our vital interests - by ourselves when need be. The question is grand strategy. With the Journal’s endorsement, the Pentagon has called for a Pax Americana: The U.S. should cast so large a military shadow that no rival dare emerge.

@LLSeniors
 
2.

American hegemony might be a pleasant idea, but is it economically, politically or even militarily wise? Bristling with weapons, we would continue our economic decline, while rising industrial and financial giants in Europe and Asia viewed our military pretensions with indifference or contempt.

@LLSeniors
 
5.

What about America as globocop? First, our 21st-century strategy has to be a shade more clever than Mao’s axiom that power comes from the barrel of a gun.

Power also emanates from a solid bank balance, the ability to dominate and penetrate markets, and the economic leverage to wield diplomatic clout.

@LLSeniors
 
6.

Second, the plan is passive where it needs to be aggressive. The Journal endorses a global security system in which we destroy rogue-state threats as they arise. Fine, but let’s prevent such problems early rather than curing them late.

Having contained Soviet communism until it dissolved, we need a new strategy of “containment” - based, like NATO, on collective action, but directed against weapons proliferation.

@LLSeniors
 
8.

The Senate has tried to force China’s leaders to choose between Third World arms sales (1991 profits of $500 million) and open trade with the U.S. (a $12.5 billion annual Chinese surplus).

Even though we have convincing intelligence that China’s leaders fear the use of this leverage, the president inexplicably refuses to challenge Beijing.

@LLSeniors
 
9.

Weapons containment can’t be foolproof; and against a nuclear-armed North Korea, I would support pre-emptive military action if necessary.

But let’s do our best - using supplier restraint and sanctions against outlaw sellers and buyers-to avoid having to round up the posse.

Why not an anti-proliferation “czar” in the cabinet to give this objective the prominence it urgently needs?

@LLSeniors
 
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Third, Pax Americana is a direct slap at two of our closest allies, Japan and Germany and a repudiation of one of our panel1. Rather than denigrating collective security, we should regularize the kind of multilateral response we assembled for the Gulf War.

Why not breathe life into the U.N. Charter? great postwar triumphs

@LLSeniors

Mnaona UN inavyotumika?
 
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For years, American leaders argued that building democracy in Europe and Asia would guarantee stability because democracies don’t start wars.

Now the Pentagon says we must keep our military large enough to persuade Japan and Germany “not to aspire to a greater role even to protect their legitimate interests."

@LLSeniors

Kwa wale mnaojiuliza inakuwaje EU wanatumika kiasi cha kuacha maslahi ya taifa lao kwa ajili ya Washington.
 
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