Obama Warriors - Junge Freiheit, Germany

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America's search for surrogates it's Neo-colonialism isn't going so well.

http://watchingamerica.com/News/24709/obama-warriors/
America wants to re-invent NATO.

Whoever thought Barack Obama’s election would make the world more peaceful and imperialism less imperialistic should have learned a lesson by now. Washington hasn’t in the least lessened its claim to being leader of both the world and the Atlantic Alliance. In fact, the crisis in capitalism has made it feel it needs to assume even greater command. Obama is attempting to modernize imperialism and improve its interconnectedness. A prerequisite for this is a certain flattening of the domestic imperialistic hierarchy.

Obama’s change of strategy also makes itself evident in his understanding of NATO. If Bush’s people had already declared the Atlantic Alliance obsolete because it wouldn’t approve the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Obama seeks to use NATO as an extension of America’s military power and redefine its mission as a general policy enforcer. Obama’s security advisor James Jones made that abundantly clear at the G20 summit in London on the eve of the NATO anniversary meeting. “We need a newly created NATO,” Jones said, “one that is faster and more mobile.” He added that “a new strategic vision” was also necessary. Above all, he said, NATO needed to be empowered to take preventive action to stop conflicts from developing. Decoded, that means NATO should be allowed to attack whenever and wherever it wants without provocation.

Not even George W. Bush went that far. That was the advantage of declared unilateralism. The United States justified its destruction of civil liberties by cloaking its actions in the mantle of self-reliance, but made no attempt to make that the norm for its allies. NATO already showed its own disregard for civil liberties and revealed its character as a criminal organization in 1999 with the invasion of Serbia. Obama’s people apparently derive their new NATO-specific strategy from the resolution of a national conflict in the Balkans, something already widely known. It consists of the destruction of countries that wish to escape the hegemony of the West. And they call this “nation building.”

Washington wants to see NATO’s new mission put immediately into action in Afghanistan because that’s the war Obama absolutely wants to win. To do that, the member nations are expected to ramp up their participation on the front lines because a reinvented NATO doesn’t mean the allies can cop out of the fight. Washington’s requested increase in European Union military participation in the Hindu Kush doesn’t find much resonance in European capitals. Still, Obama’s personal popularity remains high here. But for how much longer?

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