Reference quick review | Rumsfeld's death, "hawkish logic" when hughed

On June 30, the news of the death of former US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was widely circulated on the self-media platform. He himself and his symbol of the "hawkish logic" of the United States are arrogant and unpopular, and they are bound to fail.

File image: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Jinquan

"This is the man who destroyed our country. Under the guise of 'liberation', he destroyed many families. I will never forgive him for the pain he caused us. After hearing of his death, an Iraqi father with four children confided in an Associated Press reporter.

Two protracted wars have brought more than just the continued blood loss of the United States: the indiscriminate use of force, which has led to heavy civilian casualties, the displacement of large numbers of innocent people, and the suffering of Afghans and Iraqis. In addition, the two wars directly led to political instability, social disorder, and export turmoil and unrest in the countries concerned, which greatly increased the uncertainty factors in the region. As the "instigator" of the two wars, Rumsfeld could not escape the blame for this situation.

But in a way, Rumsfeld is also a "back cooker". His former friend Matt Latimer pointed out in a memorial article: When it comes to the iraq war, people will say that rumsfeld is responsible for it — he advanced the invasion of Iraq, and it was he who claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. When Rumsfeld became the target of public criticism, no one came out to defend him. It was as if the top officials of the U.S. national security corps were not involved in instigating the war.

Getting involved in the quagmire of war is obviously not rumsfeld's "single-handed merit," but the "concerted efforts" of the US military and political elites: using the presumption of guilt and lies to create a momentum for the war; using such beautiful words as "freedom" and "democracy" to package geopolitical ambitions; taking the concept of "America First" and "America exception" to dominate various agendas, superstitiously believing in force and hegemony, and believing that they can "fight invincible hands all over the world"; when they see that expansion is profitable, the "princes" of the US military, political, and capital circles rush up and respond in unison When the expansion encountered setbacks, it was like 2006 when Rumsfeld was "forced into the palace" by the us army's four services, and gray slipped away as defense minister, throwing away the car to show "personnel refresh", but there was no reflection on why the expansion hit a wall. The insufficiency, inversion and hypocrisy within the elite interest groups of the United States can be seen.

The "hawkish logic" espoused by these elites is still haunted today, and even has the potential to become more serious. This logic is not only eroding America's national strength and image like termites, but it is also a source of instability in many parts of the world.

As a hawkish figure, Rumsfeld has a tough attitude toward China, and his rhetoric and reversal of black and white in the South China Sea crash have impressed the Chinese people. But there is one more thing, it is worth saying: In August 1956, when a P4M-1Q electronic reconnaissance plane of the US army sneaked into our airspace to conduct reconnaissance activities, it was shot down by our army. Among the 14 randomly killed was a pilot named James Dean, who was a college classmate of Rumsfeld and had a friendship between the two who had survived a flight failure together. Many years afterwards, Rumsfeld, who was the official to the Secretary of Defense, still had a long memory of his close friend Dean, until he obtained a copy of the relevant file of the day's operation from our side.

The Atlantic magazine believes that Rumsfeld is the worst secretary of defense in U.S. history. Even if he dies, this characterization cannot be revoked. For China, friends come with good wine, and jackals come with shotguns. Whether in the past, at present, or in the future, china's hegemonism and power politics will not work at all. Just as the words that made hundreds of millions of Chinese boil with blood yesterday said: Chinese people will never allow any foreign forces to bully, oppress, and enslave us, and whoever wants to do so will surely run into a bloody bloody face in front of the great wall of steel built by more than 1.4 billion Chinese people!

The tide of the world is mighty. It's already 2021, America's "hawkish logic", when Hugh!

Source: Reference News Network