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02-05-06, 08:58 PM
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Indispensable rogue state
Rudolf Maresch 05.02.2006
Publicly the world deplores itself via the USA, secretly cooperates it however magnificently with new Rome
Long time were considered the USA as example and bright model in things democracy, liberty of opinion and pluralismus. World-wide, and also in this country. Perhaps not necessarily with Islamics or on sides radical linking and extreme political rights, which made always the US imperialism responsible for all misery and evil in the world, for poverty, exploitation, war and force.
Unterschwellig gave it always already latent uneasiness against Americans and its culture, how showed straight "three Schwestern" Vergangenheitsepos of olive Storz descriptive. "off of limit" was to be protected therefore at that time a sign frequently which can be read, which was attached by restaurants and bars at the doors, in order "German girls" forwards zudringlichen views, desires or alleged adjustments of black GIs. And also still crude "Ami, go home" calls in the ears, might sound to the older one which a revolting youth skandierte against the policy of its fathers and the Viet Nam war.
The large majority however, which acquired itself the casual American life-style under the protecting power and the atomic shield of the Americans buildup, and learned the advantages of Rock'n'Roll and individualism, consumption and prosperity to estimate, closed long its peace with the "large brother". Despite racial discrimination and social inequality it admired its liberals principles, their moral strength and its will at the USA above all to the cultural diversity, in addition, the energy and the idealism, with which they released Europe once from fascism and communism.
Destroys the America with its white buildings, removed far
Louis Aragon, 1925
Anti-American Affekte
With this sympathy and "moral authority" it is George Walker Bush the jet man Clinton in the white house replaced past, since then, the world community snubbed and a war in the middle east of the zaum broke. The prestige, which acquired itself the oldest democracy of the world in all these years, concerned at a tiefpunkt. That is not America (1), sighs a culture journalist, who was socialized with Insignien of the US Popkultur, with Westcoast sound, Blue Jeans and Joint venture.
And Juergen Habermas, which identifies itself with the best tradition Americas, with which ideas of 1776, to which Pragmatismus and the US internationalism search, since then persistently to "other America", which embodies these traditions, but lies now in rubble. In vain. Because also this jet strength, with which it could impress other nations, peoples and cultures and induce to the Nacheifern, is triumphs. From respect distrust and deep dislike became, and admiration to obsessiven anti-Americaism turned over.
One does not however only find anti-American Affekte in public opinion polls. Also with receipts and in Weblogs, on conferences or at tables reserved for regulars they can be determined. There if the word "America" falls, one will find hardly still someone, which is determined, friendly over the country to speak the people or the government. Only Exoten or troublemakers dare it to recruit with the Smalltalk, to seize with the Chat or with public rounds for America a party for understanding or confidence into the "good intentions" of the country or the American way of mastering the things of the life to defend.
Even the most usual and cheapest plates, prejudices and stereotyped one over Americans are again warmed up and raised in the chest clay/tone of the conviction: the ignorant cattle breeder, who notion of history and Geografie does not have, constantly giant steaks in itself inside plugs and with shoot-flogs wildly in the area herumfuchtelt; the again-rich American, who thirsts for cultural refinement, but does not even know, how one deals correctly with measurer, fork and spoon; the American cowboy, who the Colt sits loosely in the Halfter, that the law into the own hand takes and buffalos and Indian down Metz ELT indiscriminately; the chewing rubber chewing navy, which nothing from other cultures white, in strange countries like an elephant in the porcelain shop threatens trampled and the virginity of Muslim girls.
And even intellectual one is not itself too unfortunate to nail the country with drastic words to the wall. If Jacques Derrida and Peter Sloterdijk call the United States Outlaw and "rogue state", which place themselves willentlich outside from right and law, Peter Handke, one demands may rather disarm the USA instead of Iran, North Korea or the Sudan, since they had the worst weapons.
While Giorgio Agamben from the country makes an enormous "concentration camp", "just in the moment, in which the political culture of the west wants to give other cultures instruction in things democracy", is called Johan Galtung the USA a "faschistoiden torture state", which drives with regard to foreign policy a "geo fascism". With the utmost care the Nestor of the peace and conflict research lists, where and how often America in strange countries intervened, since 1945 seventy, and since 1804 240 times, and which and how many crimes the nation alone in the last forty years made itself guilty.
Suspicions opposite the USA go meanwhile so far that one actually subordinates and thinks capable of the US-American secret services, the World trade center to the collapse to have brought in order to come to cheap oil and to enslave the remaining world. No miracle that books and films of Michael became moorlands best-sellers and public racers and many of its expressions are goutiert like again-testamentary revealing.
Jean Baudrillard (L'esprit you shot certainly the bird terrorisme (2)) off. Immediately after elften September he explained the act as a kind of desire fulfilment or selfulfilling prophecy: Aluminium-Quida-terrorists would have implemented, what "without exception all" would have always dreamed of or would have here-longed, i.e. the center and the symbols of power to destroy the capital and the suppression. With which it far from that famous: "Nous of sommes tous America in" and the public mourning ordered by capital governments, probably the real tendency met, that "clammy-secret joy", that did not divide few.
Why do they hate us in such a way?
Even if one grants the fact that behind all these meeting with hostility and hostilities also personal disappointments hide themselves is discriminated against perhaps not always sufficiently between country, government and average American, and these expressions of people to come, which know neither Americans nor ever visited the country, may be also understandable some of it up to a certain degree. Particularly since there are strong reasons, why the country stands in such a manner "under sustained fires" and the elite of the country (see Newsweek) procures itself to ask, why so many humans the country to hate.
As largest Luftverschmutzer of the world prevented or it blocks not only international conventions to minimize these outputs it is also the largest spendthrift of scarce resources; America ignored not only international right, it reinterprets rules and measures also in their sense or bends themselves these after characteristic interests by right; the USA hold prisoners without judicial instruction in cages and to secret places against their will and refuse to the Delinquenten an appropriate defense before court; they legitimize wars with untruthful reasons, jump over themselves wonderful over Voten of the world community and refuse to international committees, to whose establishment they called once, the agreement, if the own personnel were affected by it; the United States support the Israeli suppression of the Palestinians and do much too few, in order to defuse or settle this conflict; they exercise their economic and military power and dominance with deliberate arrogance and promote authoritarian, corrupt and sexistische regime, as long as they come it zupass …
The chain of the reproaches could be continued also further. It would remain in the long run incomprehensible nevertheless why the hardness of the criticism is directed particularly against the USA and the borders between legitimate criticism and anti-Americaism thereby become flowing. Why calculated they (and not the terrorism or terror regime) become as "the most dangerous power" designation, "those ever saw the world […]," to the world the war explained "and" only one language knows: Bombs and death "(Harold Pinter). Not also do different states put unpopular persons into dark Verliese? Not also do these torture, and still many more badly and more cruelly? Not also do different egoistic motives pursue and do cover for neighbours, that behave insubordinately, by war and force? Verpesten and poison not also different countries the environment or load soil, air and climate with exhaust gases, wastes and industrial waste?
Why thus do rage, anger and hate meet mainly the USA, and not equally, do say we times, to China, Russia, Turkey or the Arab emirates? From where do disproportion and unequal treatment come? Why one condemns the USA because of poverty, racingism and social inequality, without mentioning at the same time not also the Fairness because of that unemployment, compared with that of Europe, is extremely low – even if it only low wage jobs concerns; or that (nowhere another example) otherwise so many humans of most different nationality, skin color and culture do not live door at door so closely and works and the top positions are multi-more ethnical distributed in politics, economics and science than elsewhere.
Impotenz of the America enemies
Two explanation samples offer themselves in to my view. There the comparatively high "moral requirement" is on the one hand, which the United States represent both inward and outward. The American nation does not only hold itself for the "Gegengift" (antidotes) to old Europe to be lodged a complaint it for itself also wahrere and better Europe.
Once as "town center upon the hill" of puritanischen immigrants, those rotten, corrupt and morally rotted Europe behind itself to leave wanted to be, at the Potomac based, should it a bright symbol and model for a free and open society. As "the country of the future [ and ] for the longing", which embodies a "alive idea", America does not only stand for liberty, civilization and western values, it is due to that variety of the cultures and races also the first global nation, which saw the world so far. If this public picture does not correspond any longer to the reality, requirement and reality gape, then it that also all the naturally produced myths, ideal and monuments like a house of cards in itself can quite happen zusammenstuerzen. How goes rapidly, the Clash of the Soviet Union showed last impressively. In such moments, where indications, pictures and symbols with the reality collide, neither "Public Diplomacy" and PR agencies still another "Office OF Strategic Influence" or a "Office OF help global Communications", which schoent or adorns the reality.
The other one is that the country is suitable because of its unparalleled position in the world as projektionsflaeche for political failure and political inadequacies of other states and nations outstanding. Above all African elite likes to accuse the United States for the misery of their continent. , wants to the own partial responsibility and responsibility to say: they do not place themselves to the problem of the corruption, the weapon purchases and the self enriching however. Although Africa received so far financial assignments and cheques, which a multiple of the original Mars-resound plan for Europe amounted to, their political leaders called in 2001 nevertheless after a new "Mars-resound plan for Africa".
Something similar one could over the Arab anti-Americaism say to give over the inability of the Arab leaders, its country and its population despite or straight because of the oil wealth and other sumptuous resources an appropriate getting along. Also here burning American flags must hold to kaschieren own political omissions. All this says naturally nothing about legitimate feelings of the degradation, humiliating or hurt pride, which are also in the play. Attitude, attitude and defense state however very probably somewhat how with anti-Americaism politics and tendency are made.
Feelings of the Impotenz are also a principal reason, why the Europeans weight about their "large brother" and blacken it publicly. Undoubted are thereby also envy, jealousy and disfavor in the play, which at the "Bruderzwist" between Kain and Abel reminds. By the intervention of the USA Europe lost its central position in the world. Without their assistance of Europe nations in the Second World War would have committed suicide. The American predominance and the loud neck deplored university lateralism of the country is discharge and direct consequence of this tried Harakiris and the associated military and political weakness.
This became palpable, when the conflict on the Balkans escalated and the Europeans were not able to terminate the genocide at one quarterly million Muslims in self-direction. It required American U-52 bomber, in order to terminate the Gemetzel. The same, only on lower stage, repeated itself, than Spain with Morocco argued about the Paradiesinseln, an isle before the coast of Africa, on which at the most live to a few goats. Although the assigned one with regard to foreign policy of the European Union, Javier Solana, is Spaniard, it did not succeed to the European Union to defuse or settle the crisis. Only as the US minister of foreign affairs at that time Colin Powell by means of telephone calls consultation with the Moroccan king and the Spanish Prime Minister held, came it to an agreement.
Since 9/11 also the relative meaning of Europe in the world sank strongly, anyhow from American view. Not because of the controversy over the Iraq war. Rather by this event the strategic coordinates shifted finally to the disadvantage of Europe. The line of sight America aims at the Greater Middle East and particularly at the Pacific-asiatic area. There the important things, in India and China, happen where a scarce third of mankind at home is and an explosive economic growth prevails.
Strangely enough there one is times from South Korea to feel hardly still which from anti-Americaisms, refrains although for example Indochina would have every reason for it. Differently than old Europe, which always pushes the risks and dangers from tomorrow into the foreground and makes primarily Goliath responsible for their own inability, Asia is beaconed of an optimism and a departure tendency, which do not remind from approximate of the American mentality of the courageous Anpackens and release from problems.
Even if it has the appearance, as if strive Washington and the Bush government in its second term of office again strengthens around the old continent, which is probably simply because of it that the new Foreign Minister is a large Bewunderin of European culture, changes the however nothing to the fact that large parts of the political elite America Europe regard soft light for politically irrelevant, and as a home of old people. Europeans rather as Querulanten are regarded, as "Schwaechlinge" (Euroweenies) and "small sausages" (whimps) ( anti- Europeanism in America (3)) designated, their euro rather for wine, vacation and blown up welfare states spend those than on the defense of its continent.
Well-being for sale and cheaply
To want always that morally property to strike itself reliably and obligation in accordance with on the side from moral and justice to without becoming even active thereby or to make themselves the hands dirty: This was always already the foreign exchange and a basic characteristic of European foreign policy - and there above all a speciality of the "German Marks of Diplomacy". Already therefore each anti-Americaism holds somewhat unpleasantly Geschmaeckleri, Wohlfeiles and cheap. Only quite if it comes along full selbstgefaelligkeit and moral presumption and is fed the moralism of classical resentment.
On the side one did not hurt and preserves of the own continent after the Second World War yet deep distrust in relation to the position of the gentleman and its success. Particularly in France Groll and disfavor have long tradition against the USA. Since the time one looks for de Gaulles for allies, in order to offer to the American Mr. Paroli. And with the new Germany, which constantly confounds politics since Auschwitz with moral, one believed a companion at the side, in order to be able to bind Goliath with international contracts, agreements and agreements.
On the other hand one enjoys it that he "leads" the world that he is world government and a world policeman at the same time and one can leave all unpleasant one to him. Thus it is expected that he comes insolvent nations such as Mexico or Argentina or whole continents financially against and it entschuldet that he takes over the command with the nation Building and the spreading prevented by MVW; likewise that he between difficult neighbours and partners politically mediated or grants protection warranties before encroachments of aggressive neighbours, for example Taiwan before the access of China protects, Saudi Arabia from an Islamic seizure of power retained, between Pakistan and India a military escalation prevented and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians defused or loosens. And it is expected that it protects the navigation ways along the large trade routes in the Atlantic, Pacific and Persian Gulf militarily and uses its diplomatic arts, so that the oiling system is safe and the industry of the west flourishes.
Because like that is, carries and takes over America the main part of the loads, wealthy states can such as Japan or Germany over two thirds of their households into the social Rundumversorgung of their population invest instead of them on the military to spend (Vorwaerts)Verteidigung of their country. Therefore the key word contains: "no blood for oil", with which government and NGOs politically very close come themselves, also always a core of truth. One rather hides behind the broad back Goliaths than something for the own oiling system to do or to the solution of explosive conflicts contribute. And one rather geisselt an old Federal Chancellor because of its missing moral than the hands to rub that a German leads the building of the Baltic Sea pipeline at responsible person place.
Publicly step, secretly embossments
This performative self contradiction, into which each anti-Americaism must get caught, did not remain hidden for observers. Has it just Michael mandelbaum, professor for international policy to John Hopkins university in a contribution for Foreign Policy ( David's Friend Goliath (4)) taken on the grain. Gap between what expresses the world over of Americas power, and which, what intends to do her against it, is, like that mandelbaum, never been larger than for the moment. For it this disproportion is the perhaps considerable and most drastic event 21 beginning. Century.
The fact that Goliath is loved by nobody is understandable. Who already loves a Koloss, which presses one almost to the wall? Amazing it is however that none rebels against it. If it is correct, does mandelbaum ask cunningly the fact that America these "dangerous" Hegemon is, which bends the "security and stability of the international order endangered" and international right, why unites other states, not against this rogue and develops a "counterweight" to the USA? Against the napoleonische France were formed once Prussia, Austria and Russia, against Hitler Germany marched the allied ones and against the Soviet Imperium united "the west". And against America?
There happens exactly the opposite! Even the European Union takes meanwhile from its strong words parting. Is not more to hear of "equalness" and of "eye level" (Robert Cooper), on which one wants to meet the Imperium. And nothing is to be heard more that Europe preserves "world power ambitions" (Guenter hay gene), the superpower to provoke and itself to the "Gegenpol" or to the rival of new Rome mausern wants. The political agreement process (see condition) stands in the stars, from the project of a common outside and defense strategy hears one hardly still something, the budgets for military continues to shrink, and the attempt of core or old Europe, the weapons embargo against China to loosen, in order to balance those unloved supremacy of the USA with a eurasischen axle, failed particularly because of the resistance of "new Europe" pitifully. During some politicians and parties still at expense of the USA form themselves, aim at the new German government a close co-operation and partnership with that unloved Goliath.
Again the red-green government supplies the best example of this ambivalente attitude. Ktitisierte one outward the USA to endanger the world peace in order to win with anti-American slogans the elections from 2002 to, flirted and antichambrierte the Federal Government off the cameras and microphones violently with the USA. Not only, which concerns Federal Intelligence Service operations in the Iraq, but above all also with information exchange and with logistics. In addition to all appearances both the "peace chancellor" and its minister of foreign affairs from the illegal CIA flights knew to secret hearing camps and possessed information about governments, that use torture methods. Meanwhile the Federal Government expands the Afghanistan mission, catches terrorists for the USA, so that they bring this in from the new Bundeskanzlerin publicly substantial scolded camps to Guantánamo, and them assures to the USA to train further security forceses for the Iraq.
Nothing could clarify the zwielichtige and doppelzuengige role of the red-green "peace government" better like the expressions of the old minister of foreign affairs, who denied first from Federal Intelligence Service agents in the Iraq at all which to have known then however had to admit, with them to have at least met and exchange. Or also the plain language of the new German minister of foreign affairs stone Meier. As the reason, why a committee of inquiry, which is occupied with the Federal Intelligence Service operations and the secret CIA flights, would have to be avoided, he explained soberly and in full Ernst: This would supply only more ammunition for cheapest anti-Americaism.
But Germany and the allied ones in NATO, also the nations accused of America as rogue states do not only act extremely devot, if the political situation or Opportunitaet requires it. And also the Imperium does not differentiate exactly, if it brings in strategic or right-wing political use for it. Even the Sudan, that because of the suspicion to commit genocide on its territory at present at the pillory stands, finds nothing to lock a contract with a US lobbyists at a value of over one half million dollar in order to lift its image in the world.
One could do something similar over Syria or Pakistan, which said Turkey and others, which criticize America outward strongly, them however, if it depends on it, willfaehrig and generously territory and overflight/flyover rights, prisons and torturers make to catch or kill in order to create Militaerbasen, alleged terrorists available or prisoners of a more intensive questioning to submit.
In truth and enjoys the world estimates the security and stability, which offer America the remainder of the world. It is in analogy to the "indispensable nation" (larva line Albright) long the "indispensable rogue state". Because however none would admit ever openly and before all world, and it is more opportuner, of Americas hegemony than "inconsiderately, arrogant and unsensibel" to designate, one rather accuses the USA of the arrogance and self glory.
Hated and used
In principle one can hardly contradict mandelbaum there. Certainly he draws an extremely friendly face America and gives the picture of the "good-natured Hegemon" and/or a "human global hegemony" (Robert Kagan) new food. Gladly it that it is the straight speciality of new Rome, ignores territories of other states not to control peoples and nations .
As it is usual for sea powers, they occupy not durably a country, but pull themselves after achieved work and after they installed a genehme government for them, again on their scholle back. A global net from Vasallen, tributary ones and military bases ensures rather for the fact that the power of the Imperiums remains retained. Seen of this control room out was surely the occupation Iraq an accident. The consequences can be examined each day in the evening messages.
An exciting and far open question are however, which would happen, if to the original form of the "Monroe doctrine" would appoint itself the USA (isolationism) and the world on and with their Kalamitaeten to sit would leave? Was the middle east befriedet, if the USA left the region, stopped its support for Israel and induced Israel to the retreat to the borders of 1967? Will the South American states, if they free themselves from the American influence, have more economic growth and social inequalities in their countries will eliminate? Would a multilateral order, a world out from several regions, therefore bring a safer and sturdier world?
None knows that exactly. Knowledge becomes one that only if, like Sepp Gumbrecht means, which show down between America and Asia, which begins the USA and China, and which American Imperium past is. Until it possibly so far is, the world can itself further over America ereifern.
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(1) http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,301107,00.html
(2) http://www.lemonde.fr/rech_art/0,5987,239354,00.html
(3) http://www.hooverdigest.org/032/ash2.html
(4) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3331
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