This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which inflicted indelible inner trauma on Americans. Since then, Americans have finally woken up from the "castle in the sky" of drunken gold fans and begun to face the bloody and naked reality in the world.
Before 9/11, the United States had established the myth of the "invincibility" of military strength through the Gulf War, while also firmly holding the oil of the Middle East in its own hands. Since the Clinton administration issued the National Security Strategy Report, it has established the guidance that human rights are above sovereignty. The United States began to cause global disasters through military intervention, because the Western rulers at that time really believed that military intervention could reshape a country. So when U.S. President George W. Bush decided to send troops to attack Afghanistan in 2001, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood behind him and provided firm support to the United States.
Today, however, Blair has some "regrets." On September 6, Blair revived the war in Afghanistan in a speech at the Royal Tri-Service Research Institute. As the first prime minister to order British forces to participate in the war in Afghanistan, Blair rarely "admitted the mistakes of the year". He said he really thinks that by force "this country can be reshaped, at most for a little longer", which can be said to be very "naïve".
Promoting democracy and human rights on a global scale and imposing democracy on other countries by force are the foreign concepts upheld by the United States and the West during this period. If the human rights situation in any country cannot pass the eyes of the United States, then the United States will send troops to interfere, and if any country does not obey, it will change to an obedient government. Seemingly "humanitarian", in fact, no different from terrorists. After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the rulers are still the Taliban, but they have hurt a generation.
At that time, the US military was well-equipped and had explosive combat effectiveness, which can be said to be a representative of The strength of the United States. Blair believes that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan shows that the United States is becoming less and less interested in military involvement, which is completely different from the past. Today's Western countries are always tied up, worried about the casualties of the armed forces, reducing the deployment of ground forces, but drones and special forces alone can not respond to terrorist attacks. To put it bluntly, the current US military is no longer able to do it.
Although Blair praised the decline of the United States, he still agreed with the need for counterterrorism. He argues that Islamic State extremists are currently a first-level security threat and that if left unchecked, fears of danger will "come to hand." To do so, the West must engage with China, Russia, and the Arab world to confront the threat of extremists.
What Blair meant was that the U.S. investment in counterterrorism was no longer enough to protect the safety of its allies, and that the U.S. attitude of "saving lives as much as money" also caused dissatisfaction among the British. So the United States was "expelled."
It's really very "British". When the United States commanded the world, Britain chose to bind with the little brother for the greatest benefit, and now the United States is in decline, and Blair's words are written with "cutting" in the light and dark.
Blair believes that the top priority of Western countries is to think clearly about how to strengthen counter-terrorism efforts without the United States. Because the current Western world has increasingly lost the ability to build strategies.
Of course, Blair's bowl of ecstasy soup can not be fully believed, when britain and the United States "hate each other, like a family", now the Americans shout and beat, British politicians jump up and down and rush to divide clearly, too ugly is not it.
Normal counter-terrorism is of course necessary, but is your Western counter-terrorism really "fearful"? When the fight against terrorism reached the Western world, it became an excuse for the United States to grab money, providing an excellent opportunity for the United States to make war money. Start a war, then rely on the military-industrial complex to make money, and then put money into the war, and a perfect closed loop is created. For the United States, it is best to have an inexhaustible war, and the endless "war on terror" is most suitable for the needs of the United States.
Even if European countries plan to abandon the United States and go it alone, it does not mean that the world will be safer, and the evil deeds of the United States are direct and simple, playing with power, and Europe is the ancestor.
For example, the United States made a lot of war money, and Britain did not take advantage of it that year. Now that Blair has completely washed himself and put the pot on the head of the United States, the troops have been "deceived by the United States", he is "very naïve", does anyone believe it? Now that the United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan ahead of schedule, the United Kingdom is accusing the United States of strategic mistakes from top to bottom, resulting in total losses, but the US military has not stayed long enough.
The United States is the culprit that led to regional war and chaos, and the crime is unforgivable, but Britain is at least an accomplice to this evil role, and it is not necessary to touch the fish in muddy waters.