America’s influential neocons and their liberal-hawk sidekicks want U.S. interventions pretty much everywhere, but other powers are chafing against this U.S. “global policeman,” as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller explains. The first school thinks primarily in terms of law, order and authority: it accepts the need for a global policeman. The counter-perspective to the global policeman accepts the reality of new powers arising all around us. Many FlashpointsAny world policeman today faces a growing number of flashpoints beyond its capabilities. And then routine intervention by a world policeman also creates another major negative: the continued political infantilization of so many countries in the world.

Source: Ethiopian News August 23, 2017 14:37 UTC