Spying Scandal Makes Clear That Europe Must Declare Independence/Truth Dig
By William Pfaff
The crisis caused in Europe by American intelligence interceptions of its allies’ electronic communications derives from a problem Europeans have known and put up with since the Second World War. The time has come to call a halt.
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When Europeans complain because their highest government circles are penetrated by the grotesquely overbuilt and overwrought NSA and its allies, they must dismiss Washington’s puerile alibis, heard this week in Congress—“Everyone does it,” “We are defending the allies against terrorism,” and so forth.
Since the end of the cold war—and doubly so since the 9/11 attacks—mainstream opinion in Washington has taken for granted an American national mission to establish global military domination, and to impose so far as possible a global realm of American-style government and capitalism, taken for granted to be, as Francis Fukuyama felicitously if disastrously identified it, the destined end of history.
So large a duty and weighty an obligation carries rights that Washington expects its allies and fellow democracies to acknowledge and respect. History has made them American auxiliaries in a great political and moral enterprise: to change and remake the world to suit America’s interests, which necessarily embraces the need to dominate all those global political and industrial centers which may be, or may become, obstacles to the American destiny. Thus the current American preoccupation with China, the new Russia, and the irruption in the Arab Islamic world of powerful new currents of sectarian religious passions and war, spurred by America’s invasions, Israeli occupation of Palestine, and Islamist politico-religious ideological ambitions with apocalyptic characteristics. It seems not too much to say that the ingredients of permanent war are now being installed not only there, but rapidly put in place throughout Muslim Africa.
The NSA crisis has come at a crucial moment in the development of this post-cold war American megalomania, fueled by constitutional crisis at home and radicalization of U.S. domestic politics.
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