2024-01-25 08:47:00
Original title:[World Theory]American scholar: Nothing better illustrates the arrogance and arrogance of the United States than the self-proclaimed “indispensable country”
China Daily, January 24 (Xinhua) Melvin Goodman, a U.S. national security and intelligence expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University, recently published an article saying that there is nothing more important than an “indispensable country.” This self-proclaimed title further illustrates the arrogance and arrogance of the United States.
Liberal scholars and critics believe that the concept of “indispensable state” originated in the post-Cold War period after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Indeed, Goodman suggests that the ideology of an “indispensable nation” has its origins in “the founding,” if the title of former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s trenchant memoir may be used.
From American politicians to columnists, “indispensable country” appears frequently in their rhetoric. In the article, Goodman quoted the 1998 remarks of Madeleine Albright, the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. “If we have to use force, it’s because we are America; we are the indispensable nation,” she said. “We stand tall, we see further than other countries, and we see the danger to all of us. We The country’s memory is long, and our reach is vast.” “Washington Post” columnist David Ignatius also recently said: “The United States remains ‘indispensable’ in the Middle East nation’.”
The article pointed out that the so-called “unique international status” of the United States was part of the debate among the “Founding Fathers” of the United States in 1789 on the country’s global role. Liberal academics and critics cite former US presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman when discussing “internationalism”. But former President John Quincy Adams believed that the United States “would not look abroad for monsters to destroy,” viewing the United States as a threat to the despotic regimes of Europe at the time. Adams also said that “the influence of our example” would “overturn them without exception.”
Goodman believes that the victory of the American Revolution (war) created a sense of American nationalism and internationalism. This awareness was reflected in the nineteenth-century American wars against Britain (1812), Mexico (1846), and Spain (1898). He also believes that Ignatius’s belief that the United States is an “indispensable country” in the Middle East is particularly naive. In fact, the Middle East is a “thorny land” for the United States and its influence is very limited.
Goodman finally emphasized that in this rapidly changing international environment, if there is one indispensable factor, it is the necessity of global diplomacy and cooperation. The main international challenges involve strategic stability, conventional weapons proliferation, international terrorism and climate change. Variety. In complex geopolitics, no country is indispensable. The United States needs flexible diplomacy and an end to the counterproductive cliché of being an “indispensable nation.”
(Compiler: Ma Rui Editor: Hu Xiaoshan and Gao Linlin)
(China Daily)
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