Query on 'irrational' US foreign policy

[Jean Christophe Helary]

Tavia wrote:
> 
> Someone posted comments from Noam Chomsky (from ZNet I think) in which he
> mentioned an official Clinton foreign policy document arguing that US
> strategy should appear to be as vindictive and irrational as possible in
> order to scare other countries into doing our bidding. Does anyone have the
> full text of this document, or relevant parts? To me, it is sort of a
> smoking gun, at least when it comes to arguing with my lefty friends who
> say that, since Serbia doesn't have oil, like Iraq, there is no economic
> interest for our intervention and therefore it *must* be humanitarian. I
> would like to be able to produce quotes demonstrating a third alternative:
> a substantial portion of US foreign policy derives its justification from
> the simple need to have the biggest dick in the international community.
> 
> Tavia

Think about Nato command in Europe and the fact that a lot of countries
(including France) want a share of what is basically held by the US. I see the
strikes as a way to show European politicians that military policy in the area
is decided by the US and not by anybody else and the aim is to weaken
politicians in the area and discredit social democrat governments. And there
is much more that oil in the area : 300 000 000 million people and the biggest
market in the developped world : you don't want to have a stong political
entity (means political+military+economic) keep you from selling you stuff...

Yours,

Jean Christophe Helary