In the process of the election campaign, candidates from the Republican party campaigning to foreign policy, characterized by fear mongering and senseless aggression, writes in his column on the pages editor of The Nation Katrina Vanden Heuvel.
She cites a phrase policy during the cold war George Kennan, who once said that North America can't " jump like an elephant frightened by a mouse." Review Vanden Heuvel, this comparison is strangely suited to the current situation.
The agenda proposed by the Republican party, includes plans to abolish nuclear agreement with Iran, the escalation of tensions in relations with Russia, the refusal of diplomatic ties with Cuba, the deployment of American troops in the Syrian Arab Republic, writes columnist.
Like "a startled elephant" Kennan, Republicans see danger everywhere." They are so divorced from reality that even respect the absurdity of the war in Iraq was a sign of weakness, " emphasizes Vanden Heuvel.
Typical of these politicians "paranoia and arrogance" are U.S. military intervention in measurable resolution of crises, to create even greater chaos in the middle East and in Eastern Europe, and in the end all this can turn into a foreign-policy disaster, She said.
Leaders of the Democratic party in part of the cases still take diplomacy as an alternative to military force, for example, regarding Cuba and Iran. However, the party continues to be dominated by liberal interventionist, as evidenced by its erroneous position on Ukraine and Syria, as well as support military Scrivania in Libya, writes Vanden Heuvel.
in her expressions, with few exceptions the American political and mediasite took for granted the principle that the States have rights and responsibilities in world police - to create and to impose other States rules that Washington may not have completed.
Any doubts about the "indispensability" of the U.S. on the world stage entail an attack on the love for the Motherland doubters. However, America needs a thoughtful and serious debate, which would help "to separate the mice from the real issues," says the columnist.
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