The analytical program "However," with Mikhail Leontyev 08 February 2013
When taking up his position, the new US Secretary of State, John Kerry, gave a brief speech in which, among the appropriate polites, he said the following.
"At one time, Truman turned the head of an eagle from the paw in which the arrows of war are located, to the one in which the olive branch," said Kerry, referring to the emblem of the United States. conflict resolution".
From the film "The very Munchausen":
War is not poker. It can not be announced when he pleases.
Of course, for our historical the memory of Harry Truman with an olive branch looks somewhat doubtful. I remember that it was Truman, along with Churchill, who started the Cold War and almost turned it into a hot war. But, we must pay tribute, have not been transferred. And the Cold War is the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
Or at least their peaceful freezing. New Secretary of State Kerry and the future head of the Pentagon Heighel in America are considered almost pacifists. In fact, these two Vietnamese veterans are tough and qualified pragmatists whose mission is to return the meaning and adequacy of American foreign policy, in the context of the deepest economic crisis and the emergence of new centers of power in the world.
Harlan Ullman, an American strategic analyst who is extremely close to Kerry and Heigel, in an interview with the However, weekly Obama calls Obama's old foreign policy "formless and meaningless."
"As a result, the military campaigns in the Middle East are actually lost, the lauded reboot of relations with Russia ended in nothing." Ullman notes the failure of American policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "It should be understood that strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities will not force Tehran to curtail its military program. This can be achieved only through direct intervention and occupation of Iran ... Only half a million army can accomplish this task. And who will contain this army? Iranian reef can become the cause of the shipwreck. "
By the way, the Iranian president has already quite positively assessed the new tone of the Americans and hinted at the possibility of direct negotiations. Again, the New York Times recalled that last year Obama hacked down a plan of large-scale assistance to the Syrian rebels, developed by Clintons and CIA head Petraeus. By the way, both left the administration.
According to Ullman, the State Department headed by Kerry will be able to smooth out the sharp edges in relations with Moscow: "As for the civil war in Syria, America, I think, will not support any of the parties, because we have not figured out who plays the role "bad guys", and who in the role of "good".
Not that word - did not understand! We brought up the "good guys", for example, in Libya and Syria, so that we now drench them in Mali and Algeria. Both are at their own expense. Once again: this is no longer cynicism, this is insanity. Actually, the tasks of Obama’s foreign policy are to return from insanity to cynicism. This, in fact, is in the language of diplomacy - "pragmatism."
From the film "The very Munchausen":
“We were all wrong in something here ... But some of them began to allow themselves to sew on pockets and arm sleeves — we cannot allow this.”
At the same time, one should not expect a sharp change in rhetoric from the new administration - rather the opposite. Their success is no longer guaranteed. And cynical diplomacy is least in need of open public declarations.
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