Duk da rashin jituwar da aka samu kan wasu gyare-gyaren da aka yi a Majalisar Dattawa, Majalisar Dokokin Amurka na shirin zartas da daftarin kasafin kudin soja na dala biliyan 778 na shekarar 2022. Kamar yadda suke yi a kowace shekara, zababbun jami’anmu suna shirin mika kaso mai tsoka – akan 65% - na kashe kuɗi na gwamnatin tarayya ga injin yaƙin Amurka, duk da cewa suna murƙushe hannayensu akan kashe kashi ɗaya bisa huɗu na adadin akan Dokar Gina Baya.
Rikici mai ban mamaki na sojojin Amurka na gazawar tsari - na baya-bayan nan rikicin na karshe da Taliban suka yi bayan shekaru ashirin mutuwa, hallaka da kuma qarya a Afganistan — ta yi kira da a sake nazari daga sama zuwa kasa kan rawar da take takawa a manufofin ketare na Amurka da kuma sake tantance matsayinta na dacewa a cikin kasafin kudin Majalisar.
A maimakon haka, a kowace shekara, ’yan majalisa suna mika kaso mafi tsoka na dukiyar al’ummarmu ga wannan cibiya ta cin hanci da rashawa, ba tare da bin diddigi ba, ba tare da wata fargaba ba idan aka zo zaben nasu. Membobin Majalisa har yanzu suna ganin shi a matsayin kiran siyasa na "aminci" don yin watsi da tambarin roba da jefa kuri'a duk da haka daruruwan biliyoyin kudade na samar da kudade na Pentagon da masu fafutuka na masana'antar kera makamai sun shawo kan kwamitocin Sabis na Makamai da su yi tari.
Kada mu yi kuskure game da wannan: Zaɓin Majalisa don ci gaba da saka hannun jari a cikin babban injin yaƙi mara amfani da tsada ba shi da alaƙa da “tsaron ƙasa” kamar yadda yawancin mutane suka fahimce shi, ko “kare” kamar yadda ƙamus ya bayyana.
Al'ummar Amurka na fuskantar munanan barazana ga tsaronmu, gami da rikicin yanayi, wariyar launin fata, lalata haƙƙin jefa ƙuri'a, tashin hankalin bindiga, babban rashin daidaito da kuma satar ikon siyasa na kamfanoni. Amma matsala ɗaya da ba mu da sa'a ita ce barazanar hari ko mamayewa daga wani babban ɓatanci na duniya ko, a zahiri, na wata ƙasa gaba ɗaya.
Kula da injin yaƙi wanda ya wuce kuɗin 12 ko 13 na gaba mafi girma soja a duniya hade a zahiri sa mu Kadan lafiya, yayin da kowace sabuwar gwamnati ta gaji rudin cewa ikon soja na Amurka mai rugujewa zai iya, don haka ya kamata a yi amfani da shi don fuskantar duk wani kalubale da ake gani ga muradun Amurka a ko'ina cikin duniya-ko da a fili babu mafita ta soja da kuma lokacin da yawa. matsalolin da ke tattare da su sun samo asali ne sakamakon rashin amfani da karfin sojan Amurka a baya da farko.
Yayin da kalubalen kasa da kasa da muke fuskanta a wannan karni na bukatar sadaukar da kai ga hadin gwiwa da diflomasiyya na kasa da kasa, Majalisa ta ware dala biliyan 58 kawai, kasa da kashi 10 na kasafin kudin Pentagon, ga jami’an diflomasiyya na gwamnatinmu: Ma’aikatar Harkokin Wajen. Har ma mafi muni, duka gwamnatocin Demokiradiyya da na Republican suna ci gaba da cike manyan mukaman diflomasiyya tare da jami'ai da aka cusa da su cikin manufofin yaki da tilastawa, tare da karancin gogewa da karancin kwarewa a diflomasiyyar lumana da muke matukar bukata.
Wannan kawai ya ci gaba da ci gaba da gazawar manufofin ketare dangane da zaɓin ƙarya tsakanin takunkumin tattalin arziki da jami'an Majalisar Dinkin Duniya suka kwatanta na tsakiyar karni, juyin mulkin cewa lalata kasashe da yankuna shekaru da yawa, da yake-yake da yakin bama-bamai da ke kashe mutane miliyoyin na mutane da barin garuruwa a cikin tarkace, kamar Mosul a Iraki da kuma Raqqa in Syria.
Ƙarshen yakin cacar baka wata dama ce ta zinari ga Amurka don rage yawan dakarunta da kasafin kuɗin soji domin dacewa da buƙatun tsaro na halal. Jama'ar Amurka a zahiri suna tsammanin kuma suna fatan "Raba Zaman Lafiya, "har ma da tsoffin jami'an Pentagon sun fada wa Kwamitin Kasafin Kudi na Majalisar Dattawa a 1991 cewa kashe kudaden soja na iya lafiya a yanke da kashi 50% cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa.
Amma babu irin wannan yanke da ya faru. A maimakon haka jami'an Amurka sun tashi don yin amfani da yakin cacar baka "Rarraba Wutar Lantarki, "Babban rashin daidaituwar soja da ke goyon bayan Amurka, ta hanyar samar da dalilan amfani da karfin soji cikin 'yanci da ko'ina a duniya. A lokacin miƙa mulki ga sabuwar gwamnatin Clinton, Madeleine Albright sananne tambaye Shugaban Hafsan Hafsoshin Hafsoshin Sojojin Janar Colin Powell, "Mene ne dalilin samun wannan kyakkyawan sojan da kuke magana akai idan ba za mu iya amfani da shi ba?"
A cikin 1999, a matsayin Sakatariyar Harkokin Waje a karkashin Shugaba Clinton, Albright ta sami burinta, ta yi watsi da Yarjejeniya ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya tare da yaki ba bisa ka'ida ba don fitar da Kosovo mai cin gashin kanta daga rugujewar Yugoslavia.
Yarjejeniya ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta haramta a fili barazana ko amfani na rundunar soja sai dai a lokuta na kare kai ko lokacin da Kwamitin Sulhu na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ya dauki matakin soji "don kiyaye ko maido da zaman lafiya da tsaro na duniya." Wannan ba haka ba ne. Lokacin da Sakataren Harkokin Wajen Burtaniya, Robin Cook, ya shaida wa Albright cewa gwamnatinsa tana "matsala da lauyoyinmu" kan shirin yaki da kungiyar NATO ta haramtacciyar hanya, Albright crssly. gaya masa don "samun sabbin lauyoyi."
Bayan shekaru ashirin da biyu, Kosovo ita ce na uku-mafi talauci kasa a Turai (bayan Moldova da Ukraine bayan juyin mulkin) da kuma 'yancin kai har yanzu ba a gane ta Kasashen 96. Hashim Thaci, Albright na hannu babban abokin tarayya a Kosovo kuma daga baya shugabanta, yana jiran shari'a a wata kotun kasa da kasa da ke Hague, da ake tuhuma da kisan fararen hula akalla 300 a karkashin harin bam na NATO a 1999 don cirewa da sayar da sassan jikinsu a kasuwar dashen duniya.
Mummunan yakin na Clinton da Albright ya kafa misali na karin yakin Amurka na haram a Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria da sauran wurare, tare da yin barna da muguwar sakamako. Amma yaƙe-yaƙe na Amurka ba su jagoranci Majalisa ko gwamnatocin da suka biyo baya don sake yin tunani sosai game da shawarar Amurka na dogaro da barazanar da ba ta dace ba da kuma amfani da karfin soji don aiwatar da ikon Amurka a duk faɗin duniya, kuma ba su sami biliyoyin daloli da aka saka a cikin waɗannan buƙatun sarauta ba. .
A maimakon haka, a cikin juye-saukar duniya na cin hanci da rashawa a hukumance Siyasar Amurka, ƙarni na yaƙe-yaƙe masu lalacewa da rashin ma'ana sun yi mummunan tasiri na daidaita ko da mafi tsada kasafin kudin soja fiye da lokacin yakin cacar baka, da rage muhawarar majalisa zuwa tambayoyin nawa ne fiye da kowane mara amfani tsarin makamai ya kamata su tilasta masu biyan haraji na Amurka su sanya kudirin.
Da alama babu wani adadin kisa, azabtarwa, halakar jama'a ko rayuka da suka lalace a duniyar gaske da za su iya girgiza ruɗin soja na rukunin siyasar Amurka, muddin "Complex Soja-Industrial-Congressional Complex" (Shugaba Eisenhower's asalin kalmar) yana girbi. amfani.
A yau, yawancin nassoshi na siyasa da na kafofin watsa labaru game da Sojoji-Masana'antu Complex suna magana ne kawai ga masana'antar makamai a matsayin ƙungiyar kamfanoni masu cin gashin kanta a daidai da Wall Street, Big Pharma ko masana'antar mai. Amma a cikin nasa Adireshin bankwana, Eisenhower a sarari ya yi nuni ga, ba kawai masana'antar makamai ba, amma "haɗin kai na ƙaƙƙarfan kafa soja da manyan masana'antar makamai."
Eisenhower ya kasance kamar yadda ya damu game da tasirin demokradiyya na soja kamar masana'antar makamai. Makonni kafin jawabin bankwana, in ji shi manyan mashawartan sa, “Allah ya taimaki kasar nan idan wani ya zauna a wannan kujera wanda bai san soja kamar ni ba.” Tsoronsa ya tabbata a kowane shugabanci na gaba.
A cewar Milton Eisenhower, ɗan’uwan shugaban, wanda ya taimaka masa ya rubuta jawabinsa na bankwana, Ike kuma yana so ya yi magana game da “ƙofa mai juyawa.” Farkon zanen jawabinsa ake magana a kai "Masana'antu na dindindin, tushen yaki," tare da "tuta da manyan jami'an da suka yi ritaya tun suna ƙanana don ɗaukar mukamai a cikin masana'antar masana'antu na yaki, suna tsara shawararta da kuma jagorantar jagorancin babban burinsa." Ya so ya yi kashedin cewa dole ne a ɗauki matakai don "tabbatar da cewa 'yan kasuwan mutuwa' ba su zo don su jagoranci manufofin ƙasa ba."
Kamar yadda Eisenhower ya ji tsoro, ayyukan ƙididdiga kamar Janar Austin da kuma Mattis yanzu ya mamaye dukkan rassan MIC na cin hanci da rashawa: jagorancin mamayewa da sojojin mamaye a Afghanistan da Iraki; sai kuma bayar da riga da alaqa domin sayar da makamai ga sababbin janar-janar da suka yi aiki a karkashinsu a matsayin manya da Kanar; sannan kuma a karshe ya sake fitowa daga kofa daya mai juyawa da mambobin majalisar ministocin kasar a koli na siyasa da gwamnatin Amurka.
Don haka me yasa Pentagon tagulla ke samun izinin wucewa kyauta, kamar yadda Amurkawa ke ƙara samun sabani game da masana'antar makamai? Bayan haka, sojoji ne da gaske suke amfani da wadannan makamai wajen kashe mutane da kuma barna a wasu kasashe.
Ko da yake ta yi rashin nasara a yaki bayan yaki a ketare, sojojin Amurka sun yi nasara mafi nasara wajen ƙona kimarta a cikin zukatan Amurkawa da kuma yin nasara a kowane yaƙin kasafin kuɗi a Washington.
Ƙaddamar da Majalisa, ƙafa ta uku na stool a cikin ainihin tsarin Eisenhower, ya juya yakin shekara-shekara na kasafin kuɗi zuwa cikin "cakewalk" cewa yakin Iraki ya kamata ya kasance, ba tare da lamuni ga yaƙe-yaƙe da suka ɓace, laifuffukan yaƙi, kisan kiyashin farar hula, tsadar tsadar kuɗi ko jagorancin sojan da ba ya aiki wanda ke jagorantar su duka.
Babu wata muhawara da majalisa ke yi kan tasirin tattalin arziki ga Amurka ko kuma sakamakon yanayin siyasar duniya na jarin jari-hujja masu tarin yawa a cikin manyan makamai da ba dade ko ba dade za a yi amfani da su wajen kashe makwabtanmu da fasa kasashensu, kamar yadda suka yi a baya. Shekaru 22 da yawa da yawa a cikin tarihin mu.
Idan har jama'a za su yi wani tasiri a kan wannan rashin aiki da kashe-kashen kudade, dole ne mu koyi ganin ta cikin hazo na farfagandar da ke rufe cin hanci da rashawa na son kai a bayan ja, fari da shudi, kuma ya ba da damar sojan tagulla. a yi amfani da mutuncin jama'a ga jajirtattun matasa maza da mata wadanda a shirye suke su yi kasada da rayukansu don kare kasarmu. A cikin Yaƙin Crimean, Rashawa sun kira sojojin Birtaniyya "zakuna da jakuna ke jagoranta." Wannan shine cikakken bayanin sojojin Amurka na yau.
Shekaru sittin bayan jawabin bankwana na Eisenhower, kamar yadda ya annabta, “nauyin wannan haɗin gwiwa” na lalatattun janar-janar da manyan mashawarta, da “’yan kasuwan mutuwa” masu riba waɗanda suke sayar da kayayyakinsu, da Sanatoci da Wakilai waɗanda suka ba su amanar biliyoyin daloli a makance. na kuɗin jama'a, ya zama cikakkiyar furen babban tsoron Shugaba Eisenhower ga ƙasarmu.
Eisenhower ya ƙarasa da cewa, "Mai faɗakarwa da ƙwararrun ƴan ƙasa ne kawai za su iya tilasta yin amfani da manyan injinan masana'antu da na soja na tsaro tare da hanyoyin lumana da manufofinmu." Wannan kiran na fayyace cikin shekarun da suka gabata kuma ya kamata ya hada Amurkawa a kowane nau'i na tsarin dimokuradiyya da gina motsi, daga zabuka zuwa ilimi da bayar da shawarwari zuwa zanga-zangar gama gari, don a karshe kin amincewa da korar "tasirin mara tushe" na Sojoji-Masana'antu-Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.
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