Time to smash the urge of imperial strategic groupthink
The hegemonic imperative has led to grand failure. Ignoring that will lead to the same mistakes when we ‘pivot’ to East Asia.
Graham E. Fuller is a former senior CIA official and author of numerous books on the Muslim World. His first novel is “Breaking Faith: A novel of espionage and an American’s crisis of conscience in Pakistan,” followed by “BEAR — a Novel of Eco-Violence in the Canadian Northwest.”
The hegemonic imperative has led to grand failure. Ignoring that will lead to the same mistakes when we ‘pivot’ to East Asia.
There will likely be a return to a much more historically normal state of global affairs in which multiple players are engaged.
This has much more to do with current US policy towards Turkish President Erdogan than it does with the morality of the case.
Dismal performances by top officials on China and Russia last week indicate an astonishing lack of self-awareness — or worse.