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by: Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
The media provided extensive coverage of President Obama’s Asia tour, particularly his speech to the Indian parliament, in which he expressed his support, as president of the United States, for the country’s bid for permanent membership on the U.N. Security Council, in a clear departure from the anti-India American policy for the decades during which India was one of the founding members of the non-aligned movement, and which bordered on several occasions on destabilizing the largest democracy in Asia. But the economic rise based on independent capabilities and policies led to this quality sift, in addition to the serious problems besetting the American economy which started to lose its role as leader of global economy for China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and other emerging economies.
Obama’s India tour and his glee at getting contracts worth $10 billion, which could create a mere 50,000 jobs in a country with over a hundred million jobs, show the economic difficulties faced by the United States. The state, considered the strongest militarily and the largest economically, sending its president to distant countries formerly on its black list to get these meager contracts for an economy worth over $3 trillion, reveals the depth of the crisis in an arrogant United States.
In Jakarta, Obama tried to coax the Indonesians by referring to his childhood days spent in the country. Obama’s speeches about Muslim tolerance sounded hollow in light of America’s hostile policies towards Muslims’ foremost cause, Palestine, whose people are subjected to ethnic cleansing with American support.
While Obama was trying to win a number of contracts in Asia to revive his country’s economy, China announced that it will invest $7 billion in improving Indonesia’s infrastructure. So, while China was offering funding and investments to develop this nation, Obama had nothing but one of his eloquent speeches, which no longer mean anything to anyone. His slogans of ‘change’ during his election campaign have been exposed as nothing but ‘continuing’ Bush’s aggressive policies in Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.
It is clear that China is competing with the United States on its traditional turf, in Europe. When Obama arrived in India, Chinese President Hu Jintao was visiting Portugal arriving from France where he managed to double annual trade exchange between France and China to about $80 billion. China’s assistance to Greece amounted to $6 billion after an offer last month to buy Greek debt. This comes at a time that the United States is unable to help anyone, even itself, except by printing more dollars, which is a response to a momentary need in the currency market rather than a reflection of economic growth.
Portuguese President, Kafko Silva offered to make Portugal a logistic launching pad for China into European markets and the markets of Portuguese speaking countries, according to President Kafko Silva. Although these trends seem to be essentially economic, they no doubt indicate future rearrangements of the roles and positions of global powers. Despite all these losses for the backward forces which control decision making in the United States, they still push their country to the abyss by exhausting its economy in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while China seeks, through a progressive strategy, to gain global economic and political influence. While American strategic decision makers are unable to stop the deterioration of their country’s status as a result of endemic Zionist control of American political thought, and the control exercised by Israeli governments over the US Congress and State Department, which push the United States to costly military adventures. At the same time, Israel seeks to win China over in preparation for deterioration in American influence in the coming decades.
The politically and economically significant indicator of the alternative role that Israel wants for the United States is that while President Obama was racing against time and against the Chinese president to win spheres of influence in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America, the Israeli prime minister was in Washington urging the Congress and the US government, through the Jewish lobby, to make a military threat to Iran after he failed years ago to convince the American administration to launch a direct military strike against Iran. Despite the fact that American Defense secretary, Robert Gates, rejected Netanyahu’s call, Joe Biden confirmed to Netanyahu America’s ‘full and absolute’ commitment to Israel’s security, which shows the depth of Israeli influence in the American government.
Zionist exploitation of American influence and money is ongoing and is pushing the United States to wage wars on Israel’s behalf against Arab and Muslim nations, which is exhausting American power, while its competitors for world leadership invest their resources in order to remove this empire which was one day a model for democracy, human rights, economic prosperity and freedom of the press, to become as a result of its alliance with Israel, an arrogant empire carrying the shame of its wars – which it fights on Israel’s behalf – hostile to freedom and human rights and with a declining economy despite all boasts.
In his memoirs, George W. Bush says that “the United States should not appear to be doing Israel’s job”. The right thing is for ‘the United States not to do the jobs Israel asks it to do’, because these jobs have exhausted the United States and robbed it of the sources of its power, reputation and, perhaps, its future. What Bush said about the pressure Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, put on him to strike Syria, goes beyond the incident itself to show the way decisions are taken in the US administrations, and Israel’s role in these decisions. This is an indication of the United States’ weakness; and it comes at a price the United States continues to pay.
Prof. Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She’s got Ph.D. in English Literature from Warwick University , London . She was the spokesperson for Syria . She was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She can be reached through nizar_kabibo@yahoo.com River to Sea
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