I think one of the biggest mistakes people make in analyzing US foreign policy is assuming they actually know what they are doing – they in the Pentagon, they in the CIA, they in the White House, and so on. If anything has been proved since September 11, 2001 is that they are fucking clueless. Usually ‘policy’ from Washington is just a new reaction to something that happened to another reaction in the Middle and Near East that went not according to plan.
Of course, the imperialists have their goals and plans, but this does not mean they really have a clue how to be successful.
/jd
from the Editors of Against the Current,April 23, 2015
‘…In short, the fading Obama presidency has been drawn–and has dragged the country–into quagmires from which it had promised to escape. The Obama legacy will include the militarization of the U.S. border and urban police forces (greatly assisted by Israeli expertise in these methods), institutionalized legitimacy of drone warfare and assassinations, massive security oversight of the population, and permanent states of war, much of them half-hidden, from Pakistan to North Africa. The presidency that was supposed to clean up the mess that George W. Bush made has mostly served to confirm what the left has known but is sometimes tempted to forget: there is hardly any situation so appalling, so destructive, so catastrophic in human and political terms that “our own” imperialist government can’t find a way to make it worse…’
via Middle East Imperial Meltdown | Solidarity.