EUROPE’S COMPLICITY IN EVIL
By Paul Craig Roberts
(An address by Hon. Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D.,
Chevalier, Legion d’Honneur, to Mut zur Ethik
Conference, “Sovereignty or Imperialism,”
Feldkirch, Austria, September 5, 2009)
There is a widespread supposition that Obama,
being black and a member of an oppressed race,
will imbue US foreign policy with a higher morality
than the world experienced from Bush and Clinton.
This is a delusion.
Obama represents the same ideology of American
“exceptionalism” as other recent presidents. This
ideology designates the United States as The Virtuous Nation and supplies the basis for the belief that
America has the right, indeed the responsibility, to
impose its hegemony upon the world by bribery
or by force. The claim of American exceptionalism
produces a form of patriotism that blinds the US
population to the immorality of America’s wars of
aggression.
Nothing is any different under Obama. Obama has
escalated war in Afghanistan; started a new war in
Pakistan; tolerated or supported a military coup
that overthrew the elected president of Honduras;
is constructing 7 new US military bases in Colombia, South America; is going forward with various military projects designed to secure US global
military hegemony, such as the Prompt Global
Strike initiative that intends to provide the US with
the capability to strike anywhere on earth within 60
minutes; is working to destabilize the government
in Iran, with military attack still on the table as an
option; supports America’s new military African
Command; intends to encircle Russia with US bases
in former constituent parts of the Soviet Union; has
suborned NATO troops as mercenaries in US wars
of aggression.
How should Europe react?
Europe should disassociate from the United States
and go into active opposition to US foreign policy.
Europeans should demand that their governments
withdraw from NATO as it serves no European
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