Thursday,
April 22, 2014
My good friends, it is beyond
doubt that the United States is powerful just because of how it conducts its
affairs to suggest that it has the economic and military clout to determine the
ebb-and-flow of world politics.
After luring the former Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on a wild arms race that ended in its favour
for it to emerge as the only so-called super-power, it has dictated terms all
these years and portrayed itself as the Godfather of all systems in this
universe.
Its democracy is centuries old
and admired for whatever it may mean to those who regard it as the "Father
of Democracy" or anything else, depending on which side of the coin is
seen and used for the assessment of credentials.
But it irks me a lot when the US
stomps the globe to behave as if it is the be-it-all-and-end-it-all for
humanity. Can't these ethnocentric US people ever know that other people on the
globe have their right to do things as they wish? Or that they don't sit down
to be spoon-fed on how to live their lives?
Before you jump on me, consider
the basis for my worries:
"US Secretary of State John
Kerry has said that impatience with the Venezuelan government is growing across
the region over its failure to address the country's serious political
crisis."
(Source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27513752)
The US is impatient over how
Venezuela handles its internal affairs? Why so?
I am not interested in going
through any hoop regarding the US' foreign policy and all that it entails; but
I will be eager to know why the US
feels/thinks that its preferences should be the "fait accompli" for
other systems!!
In all that it does, the US seems
not to know its own history and how to use it to do better politics than what
it has done so far.
Deceived that its brand of
democracy is the ideal one for humanity, it is doing all it can, expending
resources to export that brand of democracy anywhere in the world that it sets
its yees on.
In rather befuddling
circumstances, it has tried it in Iraq and Libya. Daily reports from those
countries prove it wrong. Rather interestingly, it hasn't commented on
happenings there. All that happened in Benghazi to precipitate the
assassination of its Ambassador Stephens and the torching of its Embassy seems
to be blamed on administrative lapses for which Hillary Clinton is being
blamed.
Now, the situation in Libya is
worse than turbulent. The US has maintained a guarded silence for fear of being
taken to task.
No one ever wants to suggest that
all the troubles in the world are attributable to the US' bulldozing habits;
but the truth is that the US is indeed a bulldozer!!
It has done so and will continue
to do so. It can't do without it because that is how its military-industrial
complex survives!!
If you doubt it, just look at the
happenings in Ukraine and you should see how the US is paying the piper (the
member countries of the EU that it is manipulating to undermine Russia).
Beyond it all is the reality that
threatens the US itself. China is rising to world dominance just because it is
economically, militarily, politically,. and ideologically capable of taking
over from the US by the end of this year (the pundits have been struggling to
tell the world when specifically it will happen, having had to scale their
prediction down from 2025 to 205 and now 2014)!!
And it is a reality that cannot
be shunned or disputed. The US knows how much of its debt is being soaked up by
China and how much of the consumable items come from China.
Friends, we in Ghana have a
common saying that when one already knows someone inside out, he doesn't need
to light a lamp/lantern at night to re-know that someone when he calls or falls
within the field of visions!!
But the truth that the US needs
to know seems to disarm it. What we see now is a pretentious and hypocritical
posture to deflect attention from reality. It won't salve its conscience or
save it from the impending doom. Empires rise and fall; when they fall, they
don't rise back. Others emerge from their ashes!!
The great British Empire fell
(even with its brand of English) to the United States. The US has all these
years enjoyed the perks of that limelight; unfortunately, the objective reality
of the situation indicates that its sun is setting.
The setting of the sun began
under George Bush the Second and has steadily continued under Obama. Can the US
and its people and allies see that reality and stop pretending? I don't know!!
I shall return…
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