Breakthroughs
for Freedom on Policy Fronts
A Memo on What Works
By Andrew Eiva
Washington DC
8/26/11
1. Decades of acquiescence
to the Assad regime appeared to end with the appointment of
Ambassador Robert Ford, who rhetorically champions Syria's human rights
and criticizes regime abuses publicly, at least when he is in
front of Congress. If this turns out to be authentic, it may
be a policy domino which ends the U.S. government's backdoor
acquiescence to the Tehran regime, such as last year's apparent
CIA acquiescence in the kidnapping of the resistance leader of
the Iranian Baluch in Kandahar.
2. Three political
appointees, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton, bypassed the State Department career bureaucracy to
support a policy of regime change and air strikes against Qadhafi.
This apparent covert operation reportedly included British, French,
Qatari Special Forces and a training camp in Qatar.
3. The apparent
support by the Emir of Qatar for the Libyan resistance also included
a shift in Al Jazeera coverage in several unexpected ways, such
as the sympathetic coverage of demonstrations against the Caliph
in Bahrain and exposing the recent brutality of the Arabist regime
in Khartoum in the Nuba mountains.
4. The State Department
turned against Egypt, a regime that was a much more reliable friend
and a much more grateful recipient of aid than Pakistan.
Egypt's army, like that of Pakistan, is still a state within
a state, and the Pakistani junior officers will be watching closely
how their Egyptian counterparts fare in the new environment.
5. The American
interest in the success of freedom movements is natural because
of America's own birth in insurgency. But after World War II,
a status quo attitude entrenched itself in the State Department
and the CIA which led to nearly 40 years of retreat and defeat
in the face of communism, which took over the inborn desire of
people to be free with its own theory of social justice until
it collapsed in its contradictions. This aberration in American
policy festered until a handful of American patriots challenged
the status quo attitude in the bureaucracy under President Reagan,
while the Afghan resistance fought back against the Red Army
on the ground.
Communism died and
20 new countries were reborn in the ruins of the Soviet empire,
resulting in a new freedom to speak and travel for hundreds of
millions of people. Along with the new free nations and the collapse
of the Cold War, globalization, free trade, and the Internet
revolution created new wealth at a pace unseen before in history.
Hundreds of millions of people climbed into the middle class
in India and China.
The Reagan and Bush
tax cuts may have been the cornerstone of this growth, with 40
trillion dollars in wealth created by the American economy from
1991 to 2005. This appears to have been the locomotive driving
another 100 trillion in growth beyond America's borders.
But the obsolete
status quo orientation in Washington continued until now, supporting
dictators and betraying those fighting for freedom until the
march of history began forcing the bureaucracy's hand in the
past year. Four powerful elements intertwine in Washington to
benefit and profit from the status quo with tyrants; the State
department, K Street, the CIA, and the military-industrial complex.
The fresh historic
wave of freedom is a new chance for Americans to dislodge this
pernicious and entrenched element of America's ruling class.
If we do so, America and the cause of freedom around the world
could take another wondrous leap forward.
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