Friday, 18 February 2011

Understanding of the American Empire

ARTIKEL INI MEMPUNYAI 2 BAHASA..BAHASA MELAYU ADE DIBAWAH.

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Be the first global empire in history. The Empire, just as previous empires, also developed by military force. USA Today has a military force that is amazing. It is not only more powerful than any country but the military power beyond the next 14 countries. Never existed in the history of a military operation like this is awesome. It houses at least 80 units at military bases around the world. The strength of the military control of the stomach and reaches the sea to outer space. It is targeting a total domination of the environment. Because of the extraordinary powers, Washington felt he could dispense with international law - such as what he did in the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. U.S. military strength was made to feel they have the privilege. It demanded the right of countries to exempt military personnel prosecuted under the banner of the UN or any other party if they are involved in any misconduct while performing their duties in other countries, and the claim is allowed. This means that even a country that signed the Rome Statute or to support the International Criminal Court (ICC), it can not be dragging the U.S. military to court. Even the U.S. itself hard against the establishment of the ICC.Military power is one reason why Washington chose the road unilateralisme in global politics. With the support of allies, it do what feels right without regard to public opinion. This is what he did to Iraq. It invaded and conquered a sovereign government that people the world protested his actions, including the UN refused to confirm his decision. Because they choose not unilateralisme and multilateralism as well as pressure from the negotiations, the U.S. accused of fascism in international politics. Iraq is also evidence of how military power is used to capture important economic resource, oil. Even in the case of Afghanistan, he used the military to overthrow the Taliban regime before the development of the five republics of Central Asia. He quickly opened a military base in three of the republic. Now it has absolute control over oil wealth in the entire region of Central Asia-Caspian Sea. Military force is used to monitor the waters of the strategic routes to protect business interests, investments and U.S. markets. In short, military power becomes an important prerequisite to safeguard the interests of the capitalist system with the neo liberal Washington multinational and transnational companies, banks, financial markets, currency traders and commodity speculators. But the empire was built not just through military force. U.S. entertainment industry over the years has played a major role in shaping popular attitudes both within and outside the country. Through film and video, music and songs, cartoons and comics, the U.S. described as a fighter of freedom and democracy, a country full of opportunity and prosperity, which appreciates the talents and achievements.Among the people of the world, the U.S. is associated with a very attractive lifestyle, focusing on freedom and individual success. But not impossible entertainment products become the largest U.S. export! Hard power - military power - and soft power - the power of entertainment - has been equally used for the development of the empire. In other words, no real powers, and Hidden. Hidden Power depends on the real power. Hidden power that made the real power is acceptable. After Vietnam to expose young American pop culture for decades, U.S. warships docked in the port re-port of Vietnam. How the American Empire is growing and developing? Among all the empires involved in the Second World War, the U.S. is the only relatively intact. Even countries such as Britain won the war when it suffered severe financial problems. This means that in 1945 only the U.S. alone could be in a position to lead the world, and he chose to demonstrate its leadership in two ways. He forced the world to recognize the strength of his army. It dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and August 9, 1945, killing 340,000 men, women and children. Given that there is clear evidence now that the Japanese at that time was experiencing the fall and will surrender a few months before the bombs were dropped, the bombing was apparently just to prove to the world how he has the military power of the most intact, and all parties must knowledge. At the same time, the U.S. helped establish a number of international institutions that will shape the world according to its reference. One of the obvious is that the UN was established in 1945 which then led by the U.S. and four partners at the time (Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China), all of which are given veto power. A year earlier, the U.S. launched the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).In 1947, he pioneered the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). However, the U.S. plans to dominate the world with the help of its allies stopped. By 1949, political and military completely dominated by the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. Soviet-style communism into the region's ideology. Europe was then divided into countries that practice democracy in the capitalist West and the countries that incline to the Soviet Union in East Germany was split in two a symbol of breaking it. Cold War began. The year 1949 is also quite important when the Communist Party of China leader Mao Tze-Tung came to power through a revolution of the people. U.S. considers China as an enemy, just as the Soviet Union. The appearance of the two communist countries that the U.S. makes it difficult to continue his vision. There is another phenomenon which began late in the 1940s that also affect the hegemony of Washington. Several countries in Asia and Africa to achieve independence around the 1950's and 1960's. These countries do not want to obey U.S. orders, neither the Soviet Union. Some of them gathered in Bandung, Indonesia under the leadership of Sukarno (Indonesia), Jawaharlal Nehru (India), Chou En-Lai (China) and Gamal Nasser (Egypt) to declare a mutual commitment to defend the independence and sovereignty of their country, which became the basis of the principles of Bandung. Nationalism in Asia and Africa to provide a further barrier to the American Empire. The national sentiment is further strengthened through the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1961. It was attended by almost all countries involved in the meeting in Bandung, except China. The challenges faced by communism and nationalism against Washington and its allies appear in the courageous struggle of the people of Vietnam under Ho Chi-Minh to restore the integrity and independence. After struggling over ten years, they succeeded in defeating the U.S. occupation. Success was a major achievement of opposition to U.S. imperialism as it spread throughout the world in the decades after World War II. There are several other significant events of the late 1950's till the late 1970s who is also an obstacle to U.S. hegemony. Cuba under Fidel Castro freed himself from Washington in 1959 through the revolution. Several South American countries tried to defend its sovereignty, but is less successful. In Africa, Julius Nyerere tried to explore their own path for developing country, Tanzania. India, since independence in 1947 until the early 1980s, holding on to the independent foreign policy backed by economic nationalism. More importantly, in West Asia, countries like Libya and Iraq that was to nationalize its oil revitalize the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).Business is conducted in cooperation with the Saudi King, King Faisal was to make the power of OPEC as a cartel, at least be able to break the stranglehold Western oil companies on oil prices so far. Economic power of OPEC is in the middle of the 1970s has been limited despite allowing Southern states to express their agenda with confidence in the UN and other world bodies. Proposals for a New International Information Order and the New International Economic Order is the product of that era. But while the South demanded justice in the international system, the situation is being started to change. Antikolonialisme - the ties that unite the countries of Asia and Africa gained independence - no longer as effective as in the early decades after the war. When faced with so many challenges of economic development and social change, these countries began to find their interests and aspirations are no longer similar. Their interest is much different because the rate of growth of these countries is also not the same. Matters worse, a number of NAM countries began to tilt to either block the U.S. or Soviet bloc, and this weakens their solidarity. Southern countries have also been split deck wars and conflicts between countries, some of which are US-Soviet proxy war. One of the early war is a battle China-India border in 1962. But the conflict is the most damaging Iran-Iraq war between 1980 to 1988. The war between two major countries of OPEC members that weakened the power dynamics of the organization, something that is awaited by Washington. In fact, there is clear evidence showing that Washington gives support to Saddam Hussein in military intelligence. War of the negative impact on the NAM and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which also comprises Iraq and Iran. Iran-Iraq conflict, and coupled with the trend being struck countries of the South has created an atmosphere favorable to Washington. It added so beneficial to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. By the late 1980s and early 1990's, communism and nationalism - two of which hinder the ambitions of the U.S. towards global hegemony - are no longer in a state capable of challenging Washington. But there is another challenge that is being formed. Iran's 1979 revolution has put Islam into the middle of national and international political arena. The success of the mujahideen over the Soviet army in 1989 reflect the ability of the Islamic resistance movement to defeat a superpower. Although the effects of these two events are not initially obvious, the role played by the Islamic movement today in offering some form of resistance to hegemony can not be fully understood without us seeing what happened in 1979 and 1989. Without communism and nationalism, the U.S. - for the second time - to show himself as a pioneer in the new world order. And they do it in style. He moved his command to expel Iraq allies of Kuwait, which Saddam conquered on August 2, 1990 in a manner that violates international norms. Allied leaders of 32 countries the U.S. is a picture of power and influence is in Washington after the end of the cold war. Leadership in Washington is second to none. It became the only single world power.At that time, too - around the beginning of 1991, a few people who have a relationship with President George Bush tried to assure her that this is the time to seize opportunities and ensure the hegemony as the sole superpower remained until whenever. Bush Sr. had not. do anything, he knocked out of his office. They are fighting for the hegemony of the whole will have to wait longer. Bush's successor, Bill Clinton is also aware that the U.S. no longer has a rival. Military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan showed he is ready for use and misuse of U.S. global interests. But Clinton is not willing to do hard, from time to time to consider the views of his allies, world views and realities of the international environment. The situation began to change in 2000 when George Bush Jr.. authorities. Group of neo-conservative (Neo-Cons) around - Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, Eliot Abrams and Richard Perle, some of which had worked with his father - has a blueprint to transform the world. They believe the U.S. should use its military power to ensure it remains dominant. Extraordinary powers to the extent there any country or combination of countries that want to challenge thinking. U.S. power was then Israel's position until he was able to dominate the Middle East politically and militarily. Neo-Cons this group by chance are all Zionists. U.S. hegemony, and Israel is also helping to ensure that they have control over the West Asia oil supply and oil from other regions to dominate the inland route. By controlling the world and full of West Asia, the Neo-Cons are obscure their real intentions by declaring that their mission is to bring freedom and democracy to the world community. The September 11 incident in a way to give a reason for the Neo-Cons to continue their mission. Since the alleged terrorism against freedom and democracy insists on destroying the American way of life, the Bush administration made the war against terrorism as an excuse to bail out the U.S. and around the world. The Neo-Cons, it is justified U.S. attacks on Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban regime that gave refuge to al-Qaeda terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden. What is hidden from public knowledge of how U.S. dominance over Afghanistan, as we have seen, has helped him gain access to the lucrative oil resources in the surrounding region. Similarly, Saddam Hussein had to be overthrown to prevent him from allowing terrorist networks acquire mass destruction weapons allegedly possessed. Although the intruders Iraq now admits that Saddam had no weapons and no terrorist network in Iraq before the invasion, they asserted that it was justified because it removes the tyranny that oppresses its people. But they will not admit that the control over oil resources, the second largest in the world is the main reason other than to destroy the regime who oppose Israel,

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