Misunderstandings of American Diplomacy - Why Multiple American Administrations Failed to Keep the Peace After World War II

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Oct 10, 2022 at 13:26

While this observer may be alone in the surmising that America diplomacy was mishandled over the decades, even centuries, there is still enough evidence that the phrase 'enemies domestic' was more in tune with how American political fortunes were more at cause for the difficulties that the American true citizen experienced at the manipulations of more sinister and insidious administrators of the bureaucratic substitutions that were legislated into power as delegated by political aspirations that hid the avarice of those who sought control of the most successful economic engine of modern history, the American middle class.
It was in the darkened spirit of the phrase 'never use your own money' that American monetary resources in the form of taxes could be manipulated for 'investment in foreign policies' and 'interventions in foreign affairs' that required investments in military defense to protect 'American' investments abroad. Technically, this was counterintuitive, since if, the American middle class was recognized as the economic force many presumed it was, why was seeking cheaper labor abroad in defiance against American labor by 'American' investors thought to be better for the American economy?
Realizing that was not the goal being sought by certain 'monied' interests, a revamping of historical changes in the Americna economy now makes more sense.
There is no 'easy' money to be made with an American middle class at ease in a peaceful economical enviroment; an environment in tension have a greater profit margin than any envisioned by keeping the peace. Match this with why the price of oil is controlled the way it is; the tax revenues alone are enough to keep the caissons rolling along.
The United States Marines, an essential force to be contended with, had early encounters with the Islamic forces in the Mediterranean and in more modern times, in Islamic enclaves that have held the Middle East in theosophically entrenched ambitions of shar'ia driven power which have yet to show any actual decline of such ambitions, merely shape shifting from one group to another, the Iranian Islamic Regime version attempting to become supreme through nuclear threats, not only toward the world, but through the subjugation of their own people.
American diplomacy under the Carter 39th(?) administration failed to recognize what Thomas Jefferson knew about Islam; they are to be contended with, not negotiated with: why? Hello(?); what does the Quran say?
Afghanistan is the latest failure of American diplmacy and why was that again? What did this 46th American Administration fail to understand when their affinity for Stalinist Soviet socialist leanings into progresive ideologies did not teach about how Soviet ideologies failed in Afghantistan so dramatically decades ago?
This observer will not hold breath while there is still the lack of such understanding in American diplomacy that still does not hold the American middle class as the most necessary element of preserving the peace.
Let this also be a lesson to Israel; American diplomacy does not serve Israeli sovereignty either.

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