Do the claims of exporting democracy to the new Middle East establish the division and fragmentation of the Arab world and other countries of the East?

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Afrasianet - Dr. Zakaria Shaheen - Will the exported democracy be similar to the Iraqi, Afghan, and then Sudanese model, and how can that be with the acceptance of division and fragmentation?


Democracy has brought Iraq with a destructive mechanism of bloodshed, every day without stopping.


In Libya, Sudan and Somalia, and embark on an abnormal way that neither the European nor the American West has witnessed... Extermination, destruction, partition, fragmentation, for Lebanon and Syria...


The Japan model was contrary... Massive atomic destruction of the status of democracy with American bases until the day of salvation came in 1975, so Japan hosted its colonizer (American) and renewed his permit to stay for thirty renewable years... So that the third and fourth hellbombs are not dropped, because world opinion does not stand by and cannot prevent another hell...


The writer Amr Ammar says in his book  (Civil Occupation), there are activists from every country that considers the opposition go to the United States of America asking to export democracy to our country,


They go to the United States of America asking for a certificate of good conduct with money.


They have not heard  of human rights violations,  nor have they heard of the cries of lawyers at Guantánamo Bay, which is devoid of legal documents.


The aforementioned book (Civil Occupation) page 20: «An amazing report shook American circles, as Business  Insider  magazine published a program that the US government admitted to have carried out since 2007 in which Facebook, Skype-Google, Microsoft-PalKnock American Online, YouTube, Apple and the National Security Administration complained and James Clapper reassured the American people that it was not what was meant but friends and other nations...

This was published by the British newspaper The Guardian and added that Egypt is one of the most countries in the world that is subject to espionage surveillance from US intelligence and the National Security Agency. Egypt comes in red as a gift to Israel... Egypt, which underwent its disarmament, the closure of the atomic institution, the removal of missiles and radars, the expulsion of Soviet experts, and reconciliation with Israel. In March 2013, U.S. intelligence obtained 7.6 billion intelligence information, both from computers and from Western communications and journalism.


When former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice used the phrase "creative chaos" regarding the situation in the region, she shed abundant ink, and many argued that it was an isolated statement in American strategic thought and from the influences of the "neoconservative" school, which had a wide impact at the time.


Many have returned today to remembering Rice's statement after the Arab world entered a real phase of chaos, the dispute exists over who believes that it is orchestrated by American strategies, and who believes that it is one of the effects of the mistakes of these strategies, especially since the Iraq war in 2003 and the pattern of dealing with the events  of  the Arab Spring."


The concept of "creative chaos" is rooted in American religious and political thought, and has its many tributaries, beginning with the biblical literature that enshrines the doctrine of creation from chaos (God chose chaos to create the world).

The argument was carried out into economic thought through the theory of "creative destruction", which was crystallized by the economist "Joseph Schumpeter" to describe the dynamics of capitalism, and adopted by the well-known political thinker "Samuel Huntington" in his theory of the "stability gap", in which he considered that countries that do not have stable democratic institutions are able to absorb Social transformations inevitably go through complete chaos followed by new political engineering procedures for building the state and establishing its institutions. But the theory was first developed in its new strategic implications by Michael Leiden, one of the main writers of the conservative National Review and close to former President Bush Jr.


Leiden considered "creative destruction" to be the great American virtue, and demanded that this model be passed on to the Middle East with the claims  of reversing its situation for two interrelated dual goals: eliminating terrorism and spreading democracy, and proposed to start with Iraq, Iran and Syria. Leiden's thesis was not isolated in the American strategic literature, but penetrated to a wide section of the political field, including the Democratic Party itself, which took over the reins of power after a period in which the conservative "right" took  over.


Despite the significant change in the tone of political discourse after Obama came to power, the position did not change in substance, but the strategy of exporting democracy moved from the idea of creative chaos through military intervention (which failed to achieve the desired results), to the idea of exporting democracy by supporting local agents who benefit from change, which means abandoning allied regimes that are exposed to protest resentment.


This change in U.S. strategy in the region leads to two important shifts: relying on internal protest forces to cause the required chaos and relying on regional proxies from outside the region to control the existing chaos. With  the support of  terrorism in the region as a result of the terrible mistakes made in the management of the Iraqi and Syrian files, the American strategy does not seem to have been reviewed, and all indications indicate that the idea of an organic link between terrorism and the absence of democracy remains the core of the American vision of crises. area.

President Obama is influenced by the Kantian idea of "eternal peace", which is based on the principle of ensuring peace among nations through the symmetry of democratic choice (democratic societies do not fight among themselves), and so he makes the same mistake that all the revolutionaries of France committed in 1789 by turning the goal of "liberation of peoples" into a way to undermine their own balances, while interfering becomes an additional restriction on people's freedoms.

When Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte entered Cairo in 1798, he addressed the Egyptians, saying: "We carry freedom for a people who cannot reject it," and what actually happened is that the Egyptian people, found in the campaign a colonial invasion that generated the modern national consciousness, without seeing it as a liberation of its political will, the same danger exists today that intervention to export democracy is an obstacle to democratic transformation, including creating chaos that weakens attachment to the values of openness and pluralism, and the transformation of the desired goal of political freedom to stability and security and lifting the state from disintegration.

 

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