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Where is rationality and strategy in US policy?

Of course it is no coincidence that the U.S. is the world’s super power. The massive size of its territory or its financial sources have not been the only determinants in it reaching this power. Despite having larger lands, and as a matter of fact, more natural financial resources, Russia, China and India do not have the same power. Meanwhile, there have been states that have produced miracles in development, despite having smaller territories and less financial resources.


Today, many countries of Europe have a great economy and wealth, not at all in accordance with the small size of the country’s territory and population. Strategic mind and the best possible management of available sources have an important role in achieving this.


Regardless of how abundant and how rich our natural resources are, they cannot endure the bad management. As a matter of fact, existing sources will become trouble for that country. With this comparison, we can even consider the fact that Turkey has no oil today as an advantage. Because, as it does not have natural resources, it has turned toward human resources and finding creative ways to close the gap.


Whereas, we see the majority of countries in the Middle East that have oil rely on the resource that seems to be endless, without feeling the need to develop any other resource. This has led to them wasting their resources and increasingly dragged them into a strange position in which they are condemned to poverty within wealth.


The fact that the U.S. has outdone other countries and reached this power in terms of the management of both human resources and other assets is indisputable. We can say that the U.S. has brought humanity to today with an extremely successful citizenship and migrant policy. Yet, its past inhuman racist policies against Native Americans and Africans cannot be ignored. However, it could be said that it has managed this process also with the rules of logic of power. The level of democracy, freedoms and human rights it reached at the end of this process has started to create the impression that it has achieved all this through democratic means. Yet, it reached today by laying a great deal of blood, oppression and massacres on that path.


One other impression created by the U.S. is that it is always strategic, particularly in its international relations, and allows no emotions, ideologies and religion. A “U.S. strategy” that makes its strategic plans in accordance with what will happen a century later and is not affected from daily developments, is a complete American legend. It would help to say that this is only a legend, but if you have power, legends are also able create perception.


The dominance of power prevents one from seeing certain mistakes, amateurisms, clumsiness and foolishness. If the foreign policy mistakes made by the U.S. today were made by any other middle-scale country, they would not have the chance to remain standing. The U.S. may have many faults against its allies, but its massive power protects it from its mistakes becoming an unmanageable problem.


The U.S.’s mistake against Turkey as an ally is unfathomable. How can it make such a mistake; how can it support one terrorist organization against another? We can lose our mind thinking how it could so easily harbor a terrorist organization that wants to stage a coup in Turkey, namely, a NATO country.


If you like, let us look at the situation from this point: The process of the Reza Zarrab case being tried in the U.S. was seen as the main news in our media for months; everything was about Zarrab and U.S. President Donald Trump. Yet, this matter holds incredibly an small place in U.S. media. While our world changes with the impact of the backing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), in U.S. public opinion, this incident is not a matter that should be dwelled upon. Frankly, the U.S.’s attitude and the its reflexes– or lack thereof – with the public opinion against this attitude, shows, in the simplest sense, that it is careless, vulgar and clumsy.


Being powerful and great may temporarily give a state the luxury of being careless, vulgar and sloppy, but the continuity of such states will, in time, undoubtedly have a diminishing, destructive impact on big states.


It is no secret that the U.S. is continuing its conflict-based foreign policy by increasing and controlling clashes within a certain scientific scope, and that it controls countries through this, and finds and controls markets for its weapons and other goods. It does this very well. But it is also true that while it is doing this, it supports different ideologies and uses them like instruments. However, this does not show that in response to the ideologies the U.S. uses, that it is subject to any ideological care.


Despite all its secularity claims, the U.S. administration is not immune to being captivated by an extremely bigoted religious ideology. Let alone this, U.S. foreign policy is largely determined by an extremist-fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity.


Trump’s Jerusalem decision is a concrete indication of the point this enslavement has reached. The U.S.’s Middle East policy shows that the mentality controlling the U.S. is still in the times of when the Bible and Torah were written. That time is also interpreted, because not everybody reaches the same result from the Torah and Bible. Evangelists believe that for Jesus to come and save us at a time close to doomsday, Jerusalem must be under Israeli cont

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