In a new interview with Britain’s Sky News, former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen brought out the old narrative of America as the “world’s policeman,” but with a lot more upbeat of an attitude about it than one would generally see.
Rasmussen criticized President Obama for not being hawkish enough, saying his successor needs to be much more interventionist, and declaring “we need America as the world’s policeman,” adding that the US needs to “restore international law and order” through wars.
Rasmussen, who was always a relative hawk in the post but seems to have taken it to an entirely new level, set out a series of things the US needs to fix militarily, including Iraq, Syria, Libya, Russia, China, and North Korea. This of course closely mirrors recent Pentagon talk of wars in the decades to come.
The timing of his calls for extreme US bellicosity are centered on trying to influence the upcoming US election in favor of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who has campaigned heavily on picking fights in Syria and against Russia. Rasmussen underscored this fact by declaring Donald Trump, who openly said the US cannot be the world’s police, as “very dangerous for the world.”
Look at him,the imbecile is smiling,he does not understand what he is saying,
Does he even think that the American people must be asked if they approve of this role? Americans want to keep our own streets safe — before sorting out bar fights in Bosnia or getting some other deserving minority a state of their own. Does he think that America is for hire, and he is demanding that we stop slouching and get to work policing the world for deserving Europeans. Is Trump right or what?
Actually a lot of Americans do believe that the US should be the world’s policemen and also believe that their troops are fighting to defend their freedoms and spread democracy around the world.
They are so ignorant of the true facts about what their government and military are actually doing.
They don’t know that they are training and equipping Al Quada to help overthrow Assad so that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries can get access to the Syrian resources.
The same reason for all the wars since 1776.
Not one war has been fought to defend their country, but to remove any leaders who will not allow their country’s resources to be stolen.
It’s amazing how they believe the government’s propaganda.
Look at how many of them believe that Putin is interfering with the election without any proof.
An absolute moron! With what blood and with whose treasure will be the endless wars carried?Is America to put its future and present in jeopardy for the Baltic countries or for N.Korea? And what sort of guarantee exist that the USA can face a combination of “enemy” like a Russia-China-Iran?That is total BS!
Considering that the US is currently responsible for most of the Middle East problems with its funding of regime change using Terrorist organisations like Al Nusra which morphed into ISIS, The funding of regime change in Ukraine. America the worlds police force the reality is they are teh cause of the conflicts not the answer to stopping them! Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, traced back to funding the Taliban and the Mujahadeen in Charlie Wilsons War! Current Syrian Problem funding of Al Nusra to overthrow Assad, any one notice thre were no MILLION of people fleeing Syria under Assad on when the US funded Al Nusra and other terrorist groups did that happen Any body notice there were not millions of refugees fleeing Africa through Libya when Gadaffi was running Libya, any one notice that little girls could go to school and women wear jeans in the streets of Kabul before the US funded their Mujahadeen which we call the Taliban today! Now i wil not go back to the days of Vietnam other than to say that Ho Chi Min approached the US after WWII but was told no the US backed the French! Nao approached the US but they went with Chang Kai Shek, all through the region the US went the other way! To be blunt the US will cause a major war probably in the next few years it will blame any one but itself but the facts are clear the majority of the problems are blowback from US actions!
Far-right baying hound Foggy Rasmussen was always a running dog of U.S. Empire.
If Hillary becomes president then this guy will get his wish.
I’m amazed by the number of people who are going to vote for Hillary even though she is telling them that she is willing to risk a war with Russia.
Most of them voted for Obama over her because of her Iraq war vote thinking that Obama would be less of a warmonger.
The website daily kos kicked anyone off close to 1,000 people off it if they said anything bad about Hillary and even when people had credible links backing up how corrupt and how she is a warmonger, they said that people were spreading right wing talking points.
This was done March 15 before most of the country had voted.
He declared that she was the nominee.
The website is full of possible CTR people who had recently joined it and they basically say the same things.
Markos wrote an op Ed in 2006 saying that Hillary wasn’t fit to be president because she was too much of a Clinton democrat along with a lot more things about what she had done when Bill was president.
People joined the site because of the Iraq war, but after Obama was elected they stayed silent when he continued PNAC’s goals in the Middle East and supported the Libyan war.