E lilo anei ʻo Michele Flournoy i ʻānela o ka make no ke aupuni ʻAmelika?

Na Medea Benjamin lāua ʻo Nicolas JS Davies, Kepakemapa 22, 2020

Inā hoʻokau ka Democrats iā Joe Biden ma luna o ka laina hoʻopau ma ke koho balota o Nowemapa, e ʻike ʻo ia iā ia e noho pelekikena ana i kahi aupuni decadent, e hoʻēmi nei. E hoʻomau ʻo ia i nā kulekele i alakaʻi ai i ka mōʻī ʻAmelika e decadence a hōʻole, a i ʻole hopu i ka manawa e neʻe i ko mākou aupuni i kahi wā hou: kahi hoʻololi i kahi wā maluhia a hoʻomau ʻia ma hope o ka imperial.

ʻO ke kime kulekele ʻē aʻe ʻo Biden e ʻākoakoa nui ʻia, me kāna koho no ke Kākau ʻlelo o ka Puʻukaua. Akā ʻo kā Biden punahele punahele, ʻo Michele Flournoy, ʻaʻole ia ke gal no kēia manawa mōʻaukala. ʻAe, e uhaʻi ʻo ia i ke kaupaku aniani ma ke ʻano he Kakauolelo wahine pale mua, akā, ma ke ʻano he kuhukukū o kā mākou kaua pau ʻole a hoʻopaʻa moʻolelo kālā pūʻali koa, e kōkua wale ʻo ia e hoʻokele i ke aupuni ʻAmelika ma lalo o kāna ala o nā kaua i nalo, hōʻino militarism a me ka hōʻemi terminal.

I ka makahiki 1976, General ʻO John Glubb, ka luna Pelekane Pelekane hoʻomaha loa o ko Ioredane Arab Legion, i kākau a puke liʻiliʻi kapaʻia Ka hopena o nā aupuni. Ua nānā ʻo Glubb i ke ʻano o ka ulu ʻana o kēlā me kēia aupuni o ka honua ma o ʻeono pae, āna i kapa ai: ka Makahiki o nā Paionia; ke Au o ka Naʻi Aupuni; ke Au Kalepa; ke au o ka waiwai; ka Makahiki o ka Manaʻo; a me ka makahiki o Decadence a me Decline. ʻOiai nā ʻokoʻa nui o ka ʻenehana, nā politika a me ka moʻomeheu ma waena o nā aupuni a me nā au, mai ka poʻe Asuria (859-612 BC) a i ka poʻe Pelekania (1700-1950 CE), ʻo ka hana holoʻokoʻa i kēlā me kēia hihia i lawe ʻia ma kahi o 250 mau makahiki. 

Hiki i nā ʻAmelika ke helu i nā makahiki mai ka 1776, a he kakaikahi o mākou e hōʻole i ka mōʻī ʻAmelika i kona wā o Decadence a me Decline, i hoʻohoka ʻia e nā ʻano ponoʻī a Glubb i ʻike ai no kēia pae, e like me ka ʻōnaehana, ka palaho maʻamau, nā inaina politika kūloko, a he mea hoihoi me ka mea kaulana no kāna iho.

ʻAʻole maluhia ka emi ʻana o kahi aupuni, akā ʻaʻole ia e pili mau i ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana, ka luku ʻana a i ʻole ka hiolo ʻana o ka puʻuwai imperial, ʻoiai ke kū mua o kāna mau alakaʻi i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo a mālama pono i ka hoʻololi. No laila he mea kaumaha ka hāʻawi ʻana mai o ke koho balota pelekikena 2020 iā mākou i kahi koho ma waena o nā moho ʻaoʻao nui ʻelua i kūpono ʻole e hoʻokele i kā America hoʻololi hope aupuni. kūpaʻa a me ka laulā o ka holomua ma hope o ka imperial.

ʻO Trump a me kāna "Make America Great Again" e hōʻike ana i ka hiʻohiʻona o ka hubris imperial, ʻoiai ʻo Biden e hoʻokau nei i ka manaʻo luhi manawa e "hoʻi ʻo ʻAmelika ma ke poʻo o ka papaʻaina" ma waena o ka honua, me he mea lā aia ke aupuni neocolonial o ʻAmelika i kona wā nui. Me ka kaomi nui mai ka lehulehu, e hoʻohuli ʻia ʻo Biden e hoʻomaka ʻoki ka waihona pūʻali koa imperial e hoʻopukapuka i kā mākou pono maoli, mai Medicare For All i kahi Green New Deal. Akā ʻaʻole paha ia inā e koho ʻo ia iā Michele Flournoy, kahi koa militarist make i hana i nā mea hana i nā kaua maikaʻi ʻole o ʻAmelika a me nā huakaʻi imperial catastrophic mai ka makahiki 1990.

E nānā i kāna moʻolelo:

Ma ke ʻano he kākau ʻōlelo kōkua no ka hoʻomalu ma lalo o Pelekikena Clinton, ʻo Flournoy ka mea kākau kumu o ka Mei 1997 Ka Manaʻo Quadrennial Defense (QDR), ka mea i hoʻokumu i ke kahua ideological no nā kaua pau ʻole i ukali ʻia. Ma lalo o ke "Strategic Defense," hoʻolaha maikaʻi ka QDR ʻaʻole e paʻa paʻa ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa e ka ʻO Charter's UN pāpā i ka hoʻoweliweli a hoʻohana ʻana paha o ka pūʻali koa. Ua hoʻolaha ʻo ia, "ke koʻikoʻi nā hoihoi i pili,… pono mākou e hana i nā mea āpau e pale aku ai iā lākou, e like me, ke pono, ka hoʻohana unilateral o ka mana pūʻali koa." 

Ua ho'ākāka ka QDR i nā makemake nui o US e hoʻokomo i "pale i ka puka ʻana o kahi hui kūloko kūʻē" ma nā wahi āpau o ka Honua a "e hōʻoia ana i ke komo palena ʻole ʻia i nā mākeke nui, nā lako ikehu a me nā kumuwaiwai hoʻolālā." Ma ka hoʻolālā ʻana i ka hoʻohana unilateral a me ka hoʻohana hewa ʻole o ka pūʻali koa ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa ma ke ʻano he "pale ʻana i nā pono nui," ua hōʻike ka QDR i ka mea a ke kānāwai kūwaho i wehewehe ai he huhū, "Hewa kiʻekiʻe loa o ka honua" e like me ka ʻōlelo a nā luna kānāwai ma Nuremberg, ma ke ʻano he “pale”. 

Ua māka ʻia ka hana a Flournoy e ka wili ʻole ʻana o nā puka hoʻohuli ma waena o ka Pentagon, e ʻimi ana i nā ʻoihana kūkākūkā e kōkua ana i nā ʻoihana e loaʻa nā ʻaelike Pentagon, a me nā pūʻali manaʻo ʻoihana koa e like me ka Pūnaehana no kahi palekana ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa (CNAS), āna i hoʻokumu ai i 2007. 

I ka makahiki 2009, ua komo ʻo ia i loko o ke keʻena aupuni o Obama ma ke ʻano he Kakauolelo o ka Puʻukaua no ke kulekele, kahi i kōkua ai ʻo ia i ka ʻenekinia politika a me nā pōʻino kanaka ma Libia a Suria a me kahi piʻi hou ʻana o ke kaua pau ʻole i ʻApekanikana ma mua o kona haʻalele ʻana i 2012. Mai ka makahiki 2013-2016, ua hui pū ʻo ia me Boston Consulting, e kālepa ana ma luna ona Pili pili Pentagon i hoʻonui nāʻaelike pūʻali koa a ka firm mai $ 1.6 miliona ma 2013 a $ 32 miliona ma 2016. Na 2017, Flourney iho e ʻalā ana i loko $ 452,000 i ka makahiki.

I ka makahiki 2017, ua hoʻokumu ʻo Flournoy a me kā Wakty Kakauolelo o ka mokuʻāina ʻo Antony Blinken i kā lākou ʻoihana kūkākūkā hui ponoʻī. Nā aʻoaʻo aʻoaʻo o WestExec, kahi a Flournoy i hoʻomau ai i ke kālā ma kāna mau pilina e nā hui kōkua e hoʻokele kūleʻa i ka ʻoihana koʻikoʻi o ka lanakila ʻana i nā ʻaelike Pentagon nui loa.

ʻAʻohe ona mana e pili ana i ka hoʻonui ʻana iā ia iho mai ke kālā ʻauhau, akā pehea e pili ana i nā kūlana kulekele ʻē aʻe. Hāʻawi ʻia kāna mau hana ma ke keʻena ʻo Clinton a me Obama ma hope o nā hanana a me nā kūlana kulekele, ʻaʻole ʻo ia i hoʻopiʻi nui ʻia no nā pōʻino pūʻali koa.

Akā nā ʻatikala, nā pepa a me nā hōʻike a Flournoy a me CNAS i paʻi ai no ʻelua mau makahiki e hōʻike ana ua ʻeha ʻo ia i ka maʻi maʻi mau e like me ke koena o kā Wakinekona kulekele ʻē aʻe "blob." Hāʻawi ʻo ia i ka lawelawe lehelehe i ka diplomacy a me ka multilateralism, akā ke koi ʻo ia i kahi kulekele no kahi pilikia kikoʻī, kākoʻo mau ʻo ia i ka hoʻohana ʻana o ka pūʻali koa āna i hoʻomaka ai i ka politika i ka 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). Ke iho nā kīʻaha, ʻo ia kekahi o ka hammer-banger pūʻali koa nona nā pilikia āpau e like me ke kui e kali ana e kuʻi ʻia e kahi triliona kālā, hammer ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe.

I Iune 2002, e like me ka hoʻoweliweli ʻana o Bush a me kāna hui i ka hoʻouka kaua kūʻē iā ʻIraka, ʻLelo ʻo Flournoy ka Hawaii Post e pono ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa e “hana kuʻi i mua o ka puka ʻana o kahi pilikia e luku i nā waihona mea kaua o ka ʻenemi” ma mua o ka hiki iā ia ke kūkulu aʻe i nā pale no ka pale ʻana i kēlā mau mea kaua, a i ʻole ka hoʻopuehu wale ʻana iā lākou. ” I ka wehe ʻana o Bush i kāna "kumu aʻo o ke kūʻokoʻa" kūhelu i kekahi mau mahina ma hope mai, ua akamai ʻo Senator Edward Kennedy hoohewa aku la ia e like me "unilateralism run amok" a "he kāhea no ka 21st kenekulia imperialism ʻAmelika e hiki ʻole ai i kahi ʻāina ʻē aʻe a ʻae paha." 

I ka makahiki 2003, e like me ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻole o ke "kaua mua" i komo aku ai iā ʻIraka i loko o ka hana hoʻomāinoino a me nā haunaele, Flournoy a me kahi hui o nā hawk Demokrat i hui pū ʻia. he pepa i kapa ʻia ʻo "Progressive Internationalism" e wehewehe i kahi "ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi a me ka maikaʻi" o ka militarism no ka Democratic Party no ke koho balota 2004. ʻOiai hōʻike ʻia ma ke ʻano he ala ma waena o ka neo-imperial pono a me ka non-intervenist left, ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia e "mālama nā Democrats i ka pūʻali koa mākaukau loa o ka honua, a ʻaʻole mākou e lele i ka hoʻohana ʻana ia mea e pale aku i ko mākou mau pono ma nā wahi āpau o ka honua. . ”

I Ianuali 2005, e like me ka hana ʻino a me ka haunaele o ka hana pūʻali koa ʻenemi o Iraq i hele a mamao aku i waho o ka kaohi, Flournoy kau inoa ʻia he leka mai ka Papahana no kahi Kenekulia Hou (PNAC) e noi ana i ka ʻahaʻōlelo e "hoʻonui nui i ka nui o ka hana a ka pūʻali koa a me nā Marine Corps (ma) ma kahi o 25,000 mau pūʻali koa i kēlā me kēia makahiki i nā makahiki e hiki mai ana." Ma 2007, ua kākoʻo ʻo Flournoy i ka mālama ʻana i “Koena koena” o 60,000 mau pūʻali koa US ma ʻIraka, a ma 2008, ua kākau pū ʻo ia i kahi pepa e noi ana i kahi kulekele o "Conditional Engagement" i Iraq, a ʻO Brian Katulis ma ke kikowaena no ka holomua ʻAmelika i kapa ʻia he "kumu e noho ai i ʻIraka" i "hoʻolālā ʻia ma ke ʻano he puka puka." 

Ma ke ʻano he kākau ʻōlelo kūpale ʻo Obama no ke kulekele, he leo hawkish ʻo ia no ka piʻi ʻana i Afghanistan a me ke kaua ma Libya. Ua haʻalele ʻo ia i Pepeluali 2012, e waiho ana i nā poʻe ʻē aʻe e hoʻomaʻemaʻe i nā mea kolohe. I Pepeluali 2013, i ka manawa a Obama i lawe mai ai iā Chuck Hagel ma ke ʻano he reformer dovish e pani iā ​​Leon Panetta ma ke ʻano he kākau ʻōlelo pale, nā kiʻi o ka ʻēheu ʻākau kū'ē i kāna mau hoʻoponopono hou ʻana, e like me Paul Wolfowitz a me William Kristol, kākoʻo iā Flournoy ma ke ʻano he koho hawkish.

I ka 2016, ua koho ʻia ʻo Flournoy ma ke koho ʻana a Hillary Clinton no ke Kākauʻōlelo no ke Kākau ʻ colelo, a ua kākau pū ʻo ia me Hōʻike CNAS i kapa ʻia ʻo "Hoʻonui i ka Mana ʻAmelika" me kahi hui o nā hawks i hui pū me ka mea kōkua ma Cheney ʻo Eric Edelman, ka mea hui pū me PNAC ʻo Robert Kagan a me Bush's National Security Adviser ʻo Stephen Hadley. Ua ʻike ʻia ka hōʻike e like me ke ʻano o ka ʻokoʻa a kā Clinton kulekele ʻē aʻe mai kā Obama, me ke kāhea ʻana no ka hoʻolilo kiʻekiʻe ʻana o ka pūʻali koa, nā hoʻouna ʻana o nā mea kaua i Ukraine, a ua hoʻohou hou ʻia ka hoʻoweliweli ʻana o ka pūʻali koa iā ʻIrana, ka hana pūʻali koa i Suria a me ʻIraka, a hoʻonui hou aʻe i ka aila kūloko. a me ka hana ʻana i ke kinoea — nā mea a pau i lawe ʻia e Trump.

I ka makahiki 2019, ʻehā mau makahiki i loko o ke kaua pōʻino ma Yemen i ka wā e hoʻāʻo ana ka ʻAhaʻōlelo e hoʻōki i ke komo ʻana o US a kū i ke kūʻai aku ʻana i nā mea kaua i Saudi Arabia, Flournoy ua hakakā kue i ka pāpā mea kaua. 

Weliweli loa nā manaʻo hawkish a Flournoy ke hele mai i Kina. I Iune 2020, ua kākau ʻo ia ʻO kahi mea kākau in Ka Moku'āina'Āina i loko o ia mea i hoʻopuka ai i kahi manaʻo kū ʻole e ʻoi aku ka ikaika o ka pūʻali koa US ma ke kai a me ka lewa a puni ʻo Kina e hana i ke kaua ma mua o ka hoʻoweliweli ʻana iā Kina e kaohi ana i kona pūʻali koa i loko o kona pā pono ponoʻī. Hoʻololi hou kāna ʻatikala i ka mea luhi kahiko o ka hoʻolālā ʻana i kēlā me kēia hana a ka pūʻali koa US ma ke ʻano he "deter Lawrence" a me kēlā me kēia hana a ka ʻenemi ma ke ʻano he "aggression." 

Wahi a Flournoy "ʻaʻole i hāʻawi ʻo Wakinekona i kāna ʻōlelo hoʻohiki" pivot "iā ʻAsia," a ʻo nā pae o ka pūʻali koa US ma ia wahi e noho like me nā makahiki he XNUMX i hala. Akā uhi kēia i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo o nā pūʻali koa US ma East East ua mahuahua e 9,600 mai 2010, mai 96,000 a 105,600. Ua hōʻemi ʻia ka huina nui o nā pūʻali koa US ma kahi o 450,000 a 224,000 i kēia manawa, no laila ua piʻi ka hapa o nā pūʻali koa US i hāʻawi ʻia i East Asia mai 21% a 47%.

Mālama pū ʻole ʻo Flournoy i ka haʻi ʻana ua hoʻonui ʻo Trump i ka helu o nā pūʻali koa US ma East East e no 23,000 mai ka 2016. No laila, e like me kāna hana ma 2004, 2008 a me 2016, Flackoy ke hoʻoponopono nei i nā kulekele neoconservative a me Republican e kūʻai aku i ka Democrats, e hōʻoia i ka pelekikena Demokarata hou i mālama ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i ke kaua, militarism a me nā waiwai pau ʻole no ka pūʻali koa-ʻoihana paʻakikī.

No laila, ʻaʻole ia he mea kupanaha no ka hopena a Flournoy i ka mea āna i hōʻike ai ma ke ʻano he hoʻoweliweli e ulu nei mai Kina e hoʻopukapuka i kahi hanauna hou o nā mea kaua, e like me hypersonic a me nā pae lōʻihi kikoʻī kikoʻī a ʻenehana kiʻekiʻe hou aʻe ʻōnaehana unmanned. Hōʻike ʻo ia i ka pahuhopu US ma kēia heihei hoʻokūkū hoʻokūkū hoʻokūkū hiki ke hana, hana a hoʻoili i nā mea kaua ʻole e kū nei e hoʻopio i kā navy holoʻokoʻa a me nā kamaʻāina. ʻauwaʻa kālepa (kahi hana hewa hae hae) i nā hola he 72 o ke kaua. 

Hoʻokahi wale nō kēia ʻāpana o ka hoʻolālā nui a Flournoy no ka hoʻololi ʻana i ka pūʻali koa US ma o ka miliona kālā hoʻolako wā lōʻihi i nā ʻenehana hana kaua hou, ke kūkulu nei ma Trump's hoʻonui nui i ka Pentagon R & D hoʻolilo kālā. 

I ka lā 10 Kepakemapa ninaninau me ka Nā Hōkū a me nā Ui Pūnaewele pūʻali koa, ua ʻike ʻo Joe Biden ua ale i nā koʻo kaumaha o Flournoy's Kool-Aid e holoi i ke Kaua Cold ʻo Trump. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Biden ʻaʻole ia e ʻike mua i ka hōʻemi nui ʻana i ka moʻohelu kālā o ka pūʻali koa "ʻoiai e hōʻano hou ka pūʻali koa i ka makaʻu i nā hoʻoweliweli hiki ke hiki mai nā mana like 'like me Kina a me Rūsia."

Ua ʻōlelo hou ʻo Biden, "Ua hālāwai au me kekahi o kaʻu mau aʻoaʻo aʻoaʻo a ua ʻōlelo kekahi ma kekahi mau wahi e hoʻonui ʻia ana ka waihona (pūʻali koa)." Hoʻomaopopo mākou iā Biden ua hoʻolimalima ʻo ia i kēia mau aʻoaʻo aʻoaʻo inoa ʻole ʻia e aʻoaʻo iā ia, ʻaʻole e koho mua i nā hoʻoholo a kahi moho nāna e hōʻoia i ka lehulehu ʻAmelika ʻo ia ke alakaʻi a mākou e pono ai i kēia manawa paʻakikī i kā mākou moʻolelo.

ʻO ka koho ʻana iā Michelle Flournoy e alakaʻi i ka Pentagon he hōʻailona hōʻailona ia e kūlou maoli ana ʻo Biden i ka hōʻino ʻana i ka wā e hiki mai ana ʻo ʻAmelika ma kahi heihei lima hoʻonāwaliwali me Kina a me Rūsia a me kahi noi makehewa, a he mea make paha hoʻi e hoʻāla hou i ka mana emepera o Amerika e emi ana. 

Me kā mākou hoʻokele waiwai – a me ko mākou ola – ua luku ʻia e kahi maʻi ahulau, me nā haunaele a me nā kaua nukle e hoʻoweliweli nei i ka wā e hiki mai ana o ke ola kanaka ma kēia honua, makemake nui mākou i nā alakaʻi maoli e hoʻokele a alakaʻi iā ʻAmelika ma o ka hoʻololi paʻakikī i kahi maluhia, holomua ma hope o ka noho aliʻi ʻana. ʻAʻole ʻo Michele Flournoy kekahi o lākou.