In presence of US President Joe Biden, his wife Jill, and a number of senior statesmen, the United States of America (USA) has honored days ago the general-diplomat Colin Powell in a national funereal mounted in Washington Cathedral.
Powell was the first Afro-American Secretary of State. He died on October 18 due to the repercussions of infection with the Coronavirus.
He was the youngest Afro-American who was appointed to the post of Chief–of–Staff between 1989-1993 before he became the first African- origin Secretary of State in the era of George W. Bush Jr.
Former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright lauded Powell as a man who enjoys sincerity, dignity, loyalty, fixed commitment toward his post along with honoring his word.
She went on to say that Powell , who succeeded her as US chief diplomat, was beloved by the army and respected by his enemies. In the Department of State, he was more popular than his predecessor, inclining to herself.
Powell belongs to the moderate school but his diplomatic career was smeared when he heralded efforts promoting the war on Iraq when he took office as Secretary of State.
He participated in deepening the gap between the standing international legitimacy and the quasi-legal strategic viewpoint that doesn’t base on pure legal, philosophical attitudes.
We should remember when George Bush Jr. administration sought to intervene in Iraq in 2003, most of the Western countries rejected such interference on behalf of international legitimacy and in the name of the philosophy that makes the states line up to carry up a military attack with unknown aspects on a sovereign state.
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell were all on shuttle flights to the European capitals to persuade their leaders with the war on Iraq but all were in vain.
We remember the famous speech delivered by Colin Powell in the United Nations when he appeared holding a little bottle.
He claimed then that patches of the earth will evaporate in a wink if he explodes that bottle. Powell pointed out what Saddam Hussein can do in the case of acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
France's then Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, over the same meeting of the UN, denied what Powell said because of the absence of any serious argument.
France refused to intervene in Iraq outside the jurisprudence of Article VII of the Charter of the United Nations which permits the use of international military force in the event of an attack on the borders of a sovereign state, given that it poses a threat to the international system through its possession, for example, of weapons of mass destruction.
This is the vast chasm between the purely legal, philosophical, and strategic direction, or in other words between maintaining international legal legitimacy and the elimination of Saddam’s regime and its people because Saddam tore in that period the ABCs of understanding about the determinants of the world order led by the United States of America (USA).
US officials described Western Europe as old Europe, unlike the countries of Eastern Europe, which were in favor of military intervention.
And Cheney, through his own words, meant the predominance of nonsense of French and Western legal and philosophical over the priorities of the stage in international relations that impose movement and illegal strategic realism with a semi-legal and semi-satisfactory cover.
The US-British military intervention took place despite the French-Western refusal and the various legal inhibitions in the United Nations, and the rest is known.
And Colin Powell does not bear the responsibility alone. The qualified strategic professors, during the era of President Bush Jr., where the neo-conservatives and their foreign policy in that period and their military intervention were still without accurate "strategic views", which cast their heavy bill on the White House and the US foreign policy, on the future of national security.
So there was confusion in strategy because members of the diplomacy and national security teamwork at different levels and they have different roles in the state, and hierarchical organizational structures and everyone needs to respect his role and work, from planning, strategy, and politics, to communicate effectively, and to exchange information among themselves, and with the American people in the end.
This confusion is what led to the deviation of some roles for some American institutions, and consequently to a weakness in production and profitability.
And this is the hidden aspect in some American reports, and this is what the theories of strategy in the field of international relations warn of.
This refers us here to the value of the role of advisors in formulating strategy thus American politics is full of lessons in this regard.
Translated by Ahmed Moamar
Follow the latest news on Google News
