A State of Clear & Present Danger
History of American Foreign Policy During
the Cold War
American Foreign Policy has a legacy of characteristic liberal
appeal to its citizens that their exercise in governance is one
of cosmopolitan localism, as well as one of nationally directed
economic imperialism. Inherently, the centers of powers once accorded
solely as the realm of purview by regional states, super powers
and their military alliance blocs have now been replaced by multinational
corporations who now compete alongside and against states for the
status to be, regulators of human and natural capital. Now that
the cold war has receded back into history, it is now the fourth
pillar of American foreign policy, its free trade doctrine that
now spins its own law of comparative advantage. It is this
law of currency supply and economic access to the modes of production
that demonstrates that globalization advocates, state's and their
investors, the MNC's support trade consolidation, and market diversification
and are also ideologically supportive of US core values, and apple
pie, though often as mentioned at the expense of the security and
moral integrity of the United States. One can witness this in terms
of the current structure of globalization, the relocation of former
US MNC'S domestic production and manufacturing, rather resultant
in their acts of loyalty to their political patron visa via exporting
US manufacturing jobs overseas, along with illegal high technology
transfers that have aided various countries in their nuclear design
protocals.
The cheap labor of the third world provides its own set of regional
security threats, and moral failings. Increased US support for those
regimes that violate human rights in the name of free liberal trade,
turns the words, liberal and free trade into pedagogical
dogmas that are always predicated upon confrontation and an ideology
of the other, to legitimize and conceal the weakness from within.
Global commodification thereby subjects the US labor market to the
same conditions as what is beholden to the volatile commodity markets
of the 3rd world. Freedom, for the US job market is now invisible
electronic currency transfers moving at the speed of light and speculated
upon by currency traders, and worshipped by the electronic herd
of apathetic 401k citizens, who sit on a moral fence of spikes and
declare no evil. In this modern age of asymmetrical warfare, terrorism,
while morally base, is a direct response to 50 years of US Free
trade policies. It is recent to our history that spymasters do not
own stocks in the foreign countries and corporations they infiltrate
in the name of US security. Class bias in the westernized intelligentsia
will only blind our view to the direct root causes of the US's apparent
weakness towards preventing terrorist attack, a reassessment of
our long term free trade policies. Also, The US cannot sacrifice
domestic infrastructural investment for military superiority, at
the expense of losing face for 50 years of global superpower status,
nor risk further tarnishing the civil rights of all its citizens
by sacrificing those rights in the name of state security, a characteristic
ploy of the former USSR.
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