The «World’s Policeman» Retires on Disability
The «World’s Policeman» Retires on Disability
Ever
since the end of World War II, the United States, rightly or wrongly,
but most of the time, wrongly, has fancied itself as the «world’s
policeman». Even a disastrous and costly military intervention in
Southeast Asia did not deter the United States from acting as the chief
arbiter of what governments were «in» and which were «out» as evidenced
by Central Intelligence Agency interloping in Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Angola, Haiti, and Colombia. Two military interventions in Iraq and a
U.S.-led military campaign directed against Yugoslavia were not enough
to pry the United States from its self-appointed role as the chief
«global cop». In fact, American neoconservatives continued to fanaticize
about the United States leading the world into a post-Cold War «new
American century».
since the end of World War II, the United States, rightly or wrongly,
but most of the time, wrongly, has fancied itself as the «world’s
policeman». Even a disastrous and costly military intervention in
Southeast Asia did not deter the United States from acting as the chief
arbiter of what governments were «in» and which were «out» as evidenced
by Central Intelligence Agency interloping in Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Angola, Haiti, and Colombia. Two military interventions in Iraq and a
U.S.-led military campaign directed against Yugoslavia were not enough
to pry the United States from its self-appointed role as the chief
«global cop». In fact, American neoconservatives continued to fanaticize
about the United States leading the world into a post-Cold War «new
American century».
