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A Misguided Policy That is Undermining American Image

Shabait.com (Asmara)
EDITORIAL
January 27, 2006
Posted to the web January 27, 2006
Asmara
The American Secretary of State, Condeleezza Rice, on one occasion was heard
admitting that, in the past 60 years, it was as an outcome of the US misguided
policy "stability at the expense of democracy" that it was supporting undesired
despotic governments. This was a multiple and grave historical error that
Unites States committed for the last many years.
The Eritrean people were one of the victims of the misguided policy of the US
State Department. After the end of the Second World War, during which almost
all African countries were bestowed with their independence, Eritrea was denied
all its rights and made to suffer the fate of becoming part and parcel of
Ethiopian rule, a country selected by the US to become the giant of the region,
at a cost of American interest and the political situation that emerged in the
aftermath of the Cold War. Due to this grave historical error, the Eritrean
people were subject to into an unparalleled suffering. Ethiopia itself had been
engulfed into a protracted war and extreme poverty and backwardness. As a
consequence, the fate of the Eritrean and Ethiopian people, for half of a
century, remained to be of war and instability.
Despite all the unprecedented mistakes, it was every body's expectation that,
after it came out victorious from the Cold War and as the only remaining
superpower, the US will play a positive role in promoting peace, stability and
social and economic progress in the world. However, to the contrary, the United
States was seen immediately after the end of the Second World War resorting to
a very dangerous and unrealistic philosophy of becoming the police of the
world, with the malicious motive of suppressing other would be superpower.
American strategists designed a strategy that "if the cold war is over and the
Soviet Union had collapsed there should be no emerging superpower at least the
greater part of the 21st century; The United States should relentlessly work to
this end". This misguided, dangerous and unrealistic policy has resulted in
hatred and mistrust of the USA throughout the world.
The United States policy towards Africa is designed to divide the continent
into specific regions and designate one country out of each region as regional
giants and thereby safeguard American interest. This policy of appointing a
single country as a regional giant and controlling the people of other
countries indirectly would not help the US other than be a repetition of its
erroneous misguided policy of the past. The current upheaval prevailing in
Ethiopia, a country which is on the list of the US favorite countries, and the
injustice being committed against Eritrea is the outcome of the misguided US
policy.
The United States involvement in provoking and igniting the Eritrean Ethiopian
war resulting in bloodshed affecting a great number innocent people, the evil
attempts made to derail the verdict of the international body by creating
different intriguing proposals has encouraged the TPLF regime to ignore and
discard the decision of the Boundary Commission.
The current extremely saddening and dangerous situation is the outcome of the
erroneous US foreign policy. It has been an irrefutable and unhidden fact of
the American government's campaign to reverse the fair outcome of the Ethiopian
election in which the opposition won in favor of the TPLF regime and afterwards
when the latter's evil motives were exposed in suppressing the popular
uprising.
The root cause of the grave historical error that is undermining American image
and interest is the outcome of its misguided foreign policy which is that is
designed to favor specific individuals and political groups at the expense of
the will and aspirations of the general public.

   

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