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43 Noam Chomsky - De-Americanizing the World

1392 ‫ نابآ‬17 ‫ جمعه‬- 1264 ‫ شماره‬/ ‫سال مکی‌‌و تسیب‬ By Noam Chomsky is the new norm among Tea Party members and a host of the prime rogue state today is the United States.” Both
others beyond the mainstream. Huntington and Jervis warned that such a course is
In touch with Iranian diversity November 05, 2013 “Information Clearing House - unwise. The consequences for the U.S. could be harmful.
During the latest episode of the Washington farce that The Republican establishment and its business
has astonished a bemused world, a Chinese commentator sponsors had expected to use them as a battering ram In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, the leading
wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible in the neoliberal assault against the population — to establishment journal, David Kaye reviews one aspect
member of the world system, perhaps the world should privatize, to deregulate and to limit government, while of Washington’s departure from the world: rejection of
become “de-Americanized” — and separate itself from retaining those parts that serve wealth and power, like the multilateral treaties “as if it were sport.”
the rogue state that is the reigning military power but is military.
losing credibility in other domains. He explains that some treaties are rejected outright,
The Republican establishment has had some success, as when the U.S. Senate “voted against the Convention
The Washington debacle’s immediate source was the but now finds that it can no longer control its base, much on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2012 and
sharp shift to the right among the political class. In the to its dismay. The impact on American society thus the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in
past, the U.S. has sometimes been described sardonically becomes even more severe. A case in point: the virulent 1999.”
— but not inaccurately — as a one-party state: the reaction against the Affordable Care Act and the near-
business party, with two factions called Democrats and shutdown of the government. Others are dismissed by inaction, including “such
Republicans. subjects as labor, economic and cultural rights, endangered
The Chinese commentator’s observation is not entirely species, pollution, armed conflict, peacekeeping, nuclear
That is no longer true. The U.S. is still a one-party state, novel. In 1999, political analyst Samuel P. Huntington weapons, the law of the sea, and discrimination against
the business party. But it only has one faction: moderate warned that for much of the world, the U.S. is “becoming women.”
Republicans, now called New Democrats (as the U.S. the rogue superpower,” seen as “the single greatest
Congressional coalition styles itself). external threat to their societies.” Rejection of international obligations “has grown so
entrenched,” Kaye writes, “that foreign governments
There is still a Republican organization, but it long ago A few months into the Bush term, Robert Jervis, no longer expect Washington’s ratification or its full
abandoned any pretense of being a normal parliamentary president of the American Political Science Association, participation in the institutions treaties create. The world
party. Conservative commentator Norman Ornstein warned that “In the eyes of much of the world, in fact, is moving on; laws get made elsewhere, with limited (if
of the American Enterprise Institute describes today’s any) American involvement.”
Republicans as “a radical insurgency — ideologically
extreme, scornful of facts and compromise, dismissive While not new, the practice has indeed become more
of the legitimacy of its political opposition”: a serious entrenched in recent years, along with quiet acceptance
danger to the society. at home of the doctrine that the U.S. has every right to act
as a rogue state.
The party is in lock-step service to the very rich and the
corporate sector. Since votes cannot be obtained on that To take a typical example, a few weeks ago U.S. special
platform, the party has been compelled to mobilize sectors operations forces snatched a suspect, Abu Anas al-Libi,
of the society that are extremist by world standards. Crazy from the streets of the Libyan capital Tripoli, bringing
him to a naval vessel for interrogation without counsel or
rights. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry informed the

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