Precarious consensus

Submitted by Igor Slamoff (Nicaragua), Mar 29, 2011 at 14:30

"However great their philosophical differences, Americans have reached a working consensus on Middle East policy."

Daniel Pipes

You can call it a consensus, or you can call it US hegemony, US leadership or US imperialism.. But that consensus reflects persistence of the geopolitical primacy in US policy, as during most of the 20th century – call them Trilateral Commission, if you like.

American geopolitical strategy is not particularly solicitous of America's well-being. If the empire were run to suit the interests of the population of North America instead of its current beneficiaries, a privileged cosmopolitan élite, it would look very different indeed. .

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