The new York post, the Star columnist benny Avni has raised the alarm that President trump may be getting too friendly with President XI of China. This can cause serious international complications if it prevents us to limit China’s influence in the world: “the power of China is bad for America and for the world, as it is a dictatorial model of management in order to compete with Western democracy.”
An ardent supporter of the Israeli right, but also closely associated with the neoconservative orbit, Avni can be relied upon to convey neo-conservative concept of world politics.
Under this scenario, the US, showcase our democratic ally Israel and West European leaders, like France Emmanuel macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who control the nationalist impulses in their countries, stand for democracy. Unlike Russia, China, European law, and Iran the bad guys, and the entire planet is waiting on an existential crossroads, trying to decide whether with the team or team B.
At the intersection, in addition, behave morally, when they are politically with US and practice by the councils of perfection, when they helpful to accept “Western democracy”. “The West”, of course, means that the US and Western Europe who describe themselves as Atlanticists and to do what the American political establishment wants them to do. The West also includes the European globalists and left-wing parties, provided that they are not anti-Israeli, and provided that they are willing to cooperate with the state Department. The West, of course, does not cover the nationalist right, anywhere outside of the US, except Israel.
The democracy that the neocons want to export to foreign countries implies the adoption of a political culture that now prevails in America and in other developed democracies. Feminism and gay rights, now this package, according to the young neoconservatives as Jamie Kirchik. The neo-conservatives of the older generation whom I knew while working in Washington in the 1980-ies, is required from our political friends less strict adherence to the true faith, for example, the holding of regular free elections and voting with the US and Israel in the UN. But the goal for Charles Krauthammer, Joshua Muravchik, Elliot Abrams and the national endowment for democracy has always been the same, turning the whole world to American-style democracy.
Probably, the country will continue to fight until this noble goal can be achieved. Because democracy will probably never make a war with the US probably never have started the war, if not to provoke the bad guys, we don’t have to worry about armed conflict, when the “Western democracy” exists everywhere. Yes?
As the Russian radical left (live in Paris) Alexander kozhev’s seminar celebrated during the cold war, and one superpower put in a position to dominate the world can really end the armed struggle, although the price of establishing a tyranny almost everywhere.
Kozhev’s seminar who was an admirer of Stalin, believed that the benefit of having peace in the world, with a uniform set of beliefs worth adopting Soviet domination. But in the case kozhev’s seminar, we are not talking about international politics, but embracing violent means for a politician to leave. International relations involve the exploitation of different and often contradictory national interests, which must be aligned in order to maintain stability. Avni and his friends in the new York post to look forward to something completely different, namely, the world is governed by people like themselves, in which significant ideological and political differences will no longer tolerate.
Contrary to what their critics have said, I see no reason to doubt that the neocons sincerely believe in them unipolar, ideologically gomogenizirovannykh view of the world. Even if they give a pass to Israel, turning the other way when he casts out thousands of asylum-seekers, African, American neo-conservatives can be sincere when they Express their common vision of the global future. Presumably, they would like to see a troublesome ethnic identity are disappearing in most countries of the world and replace them with the ideal of the American system. And they sincerely want the USA to lead a crusade to bend the world his vision.
This enthusiasm can be reinforced by some personal thoughts. Neoconservative journalists, academics and political advisers have reached a level of success that most envy. So they can believe they’re doing humanity a favor by putting on their preferred version of “American values”. The fact that they continue to enjoy great power in the Republican party and national media, and that their foreign policy is only “conservative” one says that they do not Express a single view. I’ve heard a lot about enforcement, the followers repeat their stamps on Fox News and on national radio. It would also not be a stretch to describe their “armed doctrine” (to use a phrase of Edmund Burke) as a variation on the liberal internationalism that had marked American foreign policy for much of the twentieth century. What the neo-conservatives to preach more revolutionary and more idealistic statement that in our “democratic” and human rights relations with the rest of the world should look like.
Even neoconservatives like Avni promote not foreign policy, and ideological repair. And it can be a mistake to treat it as anything, and least of all as a recipe for serious diplomacy.
Paul Gottfried is the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Yale. Sciences. He writes for many websites and scientific journals and is the author of 13 books, most recently, fascism: career Concept and the changes and differences. His books have been translated into several languages and enjoyed particular success in Eastern Europe.
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