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By William Pfaff — A new Middle East, indeed! But not the one that American policymakers expected when the George W. Bush administration launched the “Great War on Terror,” which the last few days have made irrelevant.
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By William Pfaff — Barack Obama’s successor will inherit the hypocrisy of past American policy choices in the Middle East and find himself the enemy of the governments that eventually will have replaced the unseated Tunisian, Egyptian, presumably Libyan (and other) despotisms of recent memory.
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By William Pfaff — Revolutions are known for devouring their children, but the people making the current revolution in the Middle East may prove indigestible.
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By William Pfaff — The administration has been addressing the Egyptians as if they were American puppets that perversely have taken on life.
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By William Pfaff — The events in the Arab world during the past three weeks have ended the era of American-Israeli domination/intimidation of the region.
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By William Pfaff — Dictators do not usually die in bed. Successful retirement is always a problem for them, and few solve it.
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By William Pfaff — The U.S. can pursue one of two courses in East Asia: Either negotiate an understanding with regional powers and redeploy American troops, or continue the dangerous drift that provokes China’s insecurities.
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By William Pfaff — Is it a case of murder, or has the Western economy deliberately, if unwittingly, attempted suicide and nearly succeeded?
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USMC / Cpl. Brandon Rodriguez
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By William Pfaff — The paradox that is seldom discussed in politics or the press is that the United States, with total military resources equal to those of all the rest of the world combined, wages wars that consistently turn out badly, leaving American enemies in power.
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By William Pfaff — The great campaign to create a new Middle East and Central Asia, slay Islam’s violent extremists and build a radiant new world of democracy and capitalism is moving backward.
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By William Pfaff — What do you call it when a country’s elites exploit its people and resources for profit abroad?
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By William Pfaff — The WikiLeaks documents reveal the irrelevance in much of what was being reported by American diplomats. There was no recognizable pattern or purpose.
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By William Pfaff — All of the populated (or formerly populated) world possesses its own past in ruined or replicated or restored form, capable of generating awe among the people of our time. But some live on because the crafts of the past continue to provide sustenance.
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By William Pfaff — To adapt to secular use a phrase from medieval mysticism, “the cloud of unknowing” deepens as the war-waging countries of North America and Western Europe approach their NATO “summit.”
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By William Pfaff — The European Union’s leaders, Germany and France, decided Oct. 30 to try to change the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. This is a highly charged and divisive move.
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By William Pfaff — An epoch of Western world political domination is coming to an end. This is not simply an end to imperialism (new or old), but quite possibly the beginning of a probably long decline in the West’s primacy in industry, technology and scientific innovation.
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By William Pfaff — It is not pension claims that are driving the current political uproar. It is popular fury at the people who created the present economic crisis and have been rewarded, with everyone else left to face the consequences.
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By William Pfaff — No one attending the New Policy Forum in Sofia was very interested in Washington’s present military and geostrategic preoccupations.
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By William Pfaff — Of all of the sources of strategic delusion and political illusion today, nuclear weapons undoubtedly make the most prodigious contribution to hypocrisy and useless expense.
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By William Pfaff — A splendid and courageous new book describes with lucidity the degree to which the power of the American presidency over war and peace has been weakened in our day, and, in important respects, superseded.
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By William Pfaff — The relationship between Western Europe and the colonies that became the United States was complicated from the beginning. The situation reversed, it is now Europe that tires of America’s imperial wars.
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U.S. Army / Sgt. Derec Pierson
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By William Pfaff — “Transformation” is the new military buzzword, meaning reorienting the military institution for “the complex insurgencies” that “planners say will dominate the 21st century.” Robert Gates, the U.S. secretary of defense, was quoted as saying that Afghanistan provides the “laboratory” for this change.
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By William Pfaff — This week has seen the annual ritual by which the left in France marks summer’s end and the resumption of politics as usual. This ritual is a general strike called by the left, whenever a rightist government is in power.
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By William Pfaff — There is no serious reason to consider direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority anything other than a political pantomime, although believers—if such remain—may pray for a miracle.
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller
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By William Pfaff — The globalist militarism that remains the dominant force among the American policy class in Washington (Democrats prominently involved) now has its members talking to the press about its new use of “the scalpel” rather than “the hammer.”
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Illustration based on an image by Bearas (CC-BY-SA)
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By William Pfaff — The excellent second quarter export and growth results reported by Germany have set that country at an increasing, and increasingly dangerous, distance from the other members of the European Union.
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Bradley Lail
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By William Pfaff — The first decision made by Gen. David Petraeus as commandant of international forces in Afghanistan has been to abandon the policy he himself drafted in order to win the war and rebuild Afghan stability and government.
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U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez
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By William Pfaff — While it is unquestionable that Barack Obama made the war in Afghanistan “his” war, it also is true that it was served to him on a platter and with a gun pressed against his back.
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Flickr / jimg944 (CC-BY)
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By William Pfaff — Possibly the most fashionable theme in current discussions of the future is whether China will replace the United States as the leading world power.
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By William Pfaff — The European Union deliberately has chosen not to challenge the United States as a military or political superpower. This is convenient for most and saves Europe a great deal of money. It is prudent, since no one knows what the U.S. would do if the Europeans undertook a role that challenged American primacy.
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U.S. Army / Ted Green
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By William Pfaff — The Afghanistan situation is worth analysis at two levels, that of the war itself and the domestic political effect of Obama’s misguided decision to replace “Bush’s war” in Iraq with his own in Afghanistan.
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By William Pfaff — In Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, the major places of military interest to the United States today, there are indications that things are coming apart.
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By William Pfaff — The lesson of modern European history—the world wars and the great totalitarian convulsions—is that trying to create a utopia invites disaster.
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By William Pfaff — Even though Barack Obama writes that America cannot allow the burdens of the 21st century to “fall on American shoulders alone,” he similarly cannot accept that the United States deviate from the globalist ambitions emphasized in the published strategies of both the Bush and Obama administrations.
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By William Pfaff — The conduct of Barack Obama in the BP affair, and all that preceded it, has become to this writer all but incomprehensible. I cannot imagine a more compelling portrayal of impotence.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — Though the president reiterated his promise of success, the future he outlined at West Point is hard to distinguish from what we have already been through in Iraq, with less than reassuring results.
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By William Pfaff — The European Union doesn’t know where it stands at this moment. NATO thinks it knows and is gambling.
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By William Pfaff — The present crisis of the European Union was inherent in the creation of the institution itself.
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By William Pfaff — Large and firmly implanted bureaucratic organizations are almost impossible to kill, even when they have no reason to continue to exist, as NATO has not since the Soviet Union, communism and the Warsaw Pact all collapsed.
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By William Pfaff — It is a dismaying reflection that the facilitators of major violence thus far in the 21st century have been lies told by democratic governments.
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By William Pfaff — The specific inspiration for weapons proliferation among vulnerable Third World states is the desire to have a nuclear deterrent against invasion or attack by the United States (or in the Iran case, Israel), or by some other nation in the future.
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By William Pfaff — Today’s European crisis was precipitated by Greece acting with possibly reckless honesty, and Germany behaving badly.
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By William Pfaff — I would think one judgment history will make on the Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council (1962-65), under Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI, will be a reproach for its failure to lift the rule of celibacy for secular priests.
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By William Pfaff — The relationship between the United States and Israel has always rested on a number of pretensions, politically useful to politicians on both sides, but because they are untrue, certain eventually to prove destructive to both countries.
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By William Pfaff — Internationally speaking, there are only two subjects to talk about in the Middle East. These are Israel, the Palestinians and the Americans; and Iran and Israel.
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By William Pfaff — There is a lot of money to be made by big international banks in impoverished small, and even medium-size, countries in times of world crisis.
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By William Pfaff — The U.S. devotes large sums of money to subsidizing the participation in Afghanistan of small NATO countries and publicizing the affair as a true coalition operation, but NATO-nation political and public support for the war is faint and grudging because few believe the mission is realistic.
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By William Pfaff — What is this problem about Europe’s standing in the world today that obsesses the Europeans and generates constant self-examination, endless academic seminars and political conferences, all permeated with inarticulate anxiety?
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Angelita Lawrence
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By William Pfaff — U.N. officials and American military commanders suggest that diplomacy might be coming alive on the Afghan front, but neither the Pentagon nor the White House seems to have clearly identified what the United States wants in Afghanistan.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — China and India stopped being part of what was called the “third world” when the “second world,” the communist world, disappeared in a shattering of global illusions in 1989.
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