TAILIEUCHUNG - Masters of Illusion American Leadership in the Media Age Phần 9

Văn hóa công cộng ức chế sự lãnh đạo của Tổng thống Bảo tồn các lợi ích của Mỹ trong một thế giới thay đổi đáng kể bằng cách giảm bớt sự phụ thuộc của chúng tôi về liên minh đã lỗi thời, và do đó gỡ rối mình từ các liên minh cũng như thúc giục chúng tôi bằng cách Tổng thống đầu tiên của chúng tôi. | How Public Culture Inhibits Presidential Leadership 427 preserve American interests in a dramatically changing world by lessening our reliance on outdated alliances and thereby disentangling ourselves from alliances just as urged upon us by our first President George Washington and simultaneously encouraging the world to make needed adjustments to changing configurations of national power. Furthermore the President is clothing this strategy in rhetoric that engages support even within the context of the national wishful thinking that is parent to our public culture. The merit of the president s approach arises from two causes 1. The end of the Cold War and the increasing obsolescence of the . alliance with Western Europe and 2. The dramatic changes in national power economic political and military that are occurring in the world. As the world changes relationships among nations are strained and power equations must change perhaps including some borders . In this environment the United States best defends itself and facilitates necessary change by acting independently. Alliances become primarily tactical and expedient - coalitions of the willing. The United States is right to break free of European entanglements which are the real remaining chains of twentieth century conflicts. The future of much of the globe is going forward without the Western Europeans who try to hang on to declining power and influence in the world via limited military power intermediate economic power and unlimited sanctimonious hypocrisy which they confuse with moral influence. The western Europeans have their fifth column in the United States and its political expression is in our public culture. Strategic Independence should replace Mutual Assured Destruction MAD as the cornerstone of our nuclear policy. When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles mentioned massive retaliation at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in January 1954 the possibility of all-out full-scale nuclear .

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