America's Real Foreign Policy: Global Corporatization by Force
Whose security is the U.S. military and foreign service protecting?
The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in
world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide a few hints as to
how I think the subject can be
productively explored, keeping to the United States for several reasons.
First, the U.S. is unmatched in its global significance and impact.
Second, it is an unusually open society, possibly uniquely so, which
means we know more about it. Finally, it is plainly the most important
case for Americans, who are able to influence policy choices in the U.S.
— and indeed for others, insofar as their actions can influence such
choices. The general principles, however, extend to the other major
powers, and well beyond.
There is a “received standard
version,” common to academic scholarship, government pronouncements, and
public discourse. It holds that the prime commitment of governments is
to ensure security, and that the primary concern of the U.S. and its
allies since 1945 was the Russian threat.
There are a number of
ways to evaluate the doctrine. One obvious question to ask is: What
happened when the Russian threat disappeared in 1989? Answer:
everything continued much as before.
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/noam-chomsky-americas-corporate-doctrine-of-power-a-grave-threat-to-humanity/
