Doctrine Of Constrainment

by Courtney Messerschmidt | June 30, 2011 10:13 am

Constrained!

That’s what they calls it after the ‘rents freak the freak out about next month’s Visa statement showcasing over a hundred bucks splurged on liq liq liquor (liquor) on a Tuesday night (to be fair – please note a Jalapeno burger de luxe should be in there somewhere):  – with the appropriate gratuity – natch.

Self imposed restraint in the realm of the diplopolititary is not unlike a boring assetted redux of “Taming American Power”[1] – the risible and not well tho’t out tome [2]courtesy of Weenie Hut Juniors[3] guy – the Great and Little Satan[4] Hating faux academic[5] und self ‘scribed High Priest [6]of the amoral ancient sad corrupt Cult of Stability.[7]

1.) Great Satan and her hedonistic hyperpuissant hegemonic hotness[8] makes uncool despotries that love terrorists, fiddle about with WMD, torment their own ppl and their neighbors nervous.

2.) Haughty hypocrisy (carebeful! Direct hit on realpolitik – nicht wahr?) – sucking up to tyrants in hope for stability while talkin’ bout those Universal Values[9] or preaching stuff about new clear proliferators and then according treaties and internat’l respect to oath breakers

3.) How Great Satan displays her hyperpuissance and acts out whenever the need or even opportunity arises.

Two junior grade Vulcans[10] point out the academic ‘Binding Great Satan Posse” has been hot to fashion a just another ho among hoes strategic plot -a:  “doctrine of self-containment.” Or, perhaps more better fitting, the “Doctrine of Constrainment.”[11]

This bassackwards mindset – as best understood – emerges from the post 911 (and last millennium’s “Blame Great Satan 1st”[12] School of tho’tless tho’t):  conviction that Great Satan cannot and should not exercise her magically delicious mad skills of boldness and independence characteristic of her FoPo in the decades after World War II.

“…That view runs roughly as follows: traditional ideas of American leadership serving American interests abroad are not a proper guide for future conduct. They have spawned crimes and blunders–in Iran in the early 1950s, then in Vietnam, and recently in Iraq, for example. To prevent further calamities, Great Satan should drop her obsession with her own nat’l interests and concentrate on working for the world’s general good on an equal footing with other countries, recognizing that it is multinat’l bodies that grant legitimacy on the world stage.

Two big ideas animate the Constrainment Doctrine

1) America’s role in world affairs for more than a century has been, more often than not, aggressive rather than constrained, wasteful rather than communal, and arrogant in promoting democracy, despite our own democratic shortcomings. Accordingly, Great Satan has much to apologize for, including failure to understand others, refusal to defer sufficiently to others, selfishness in pursuing her legit interests as opfor’d to global interests, and showing far too much concern for American sovereignty, independence, and freedom of action.

2) Something something multilateral institutions [13]offer the best hope for restraining Great Satan’s power and moderating her nat’l assertiveness.

Must.
Stay.
Awake.

Several of the academs promoting the bizarre idea that Great Satan and Bashar’s Syria are exactly the same are hooked up to 44’s Admin:

Sam Pow[14] (and it must be said – a lot of her stuff is prett cool[15]) gets a totally theory happy high that prob sounds great in a climate controlled environ like a classroom[16] yet will totally suck in the real world:

“…Great Satan’s foreign policy has to be rethought. It needs not tweaking but overhauling… Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors. When DeutschBundesKanzler Willi Brandt went down on one knee in the Warsaw ghetto[17], his gesture was gratifying to World War II survivors, but it was also ennobling and cathartic for Germany. Would such an approach be futile for Great Satan?

State Dept’s Chief Policy Plotress:  Anne-Marie Slaughter [18]continues the emo heavy act [19]and once waxed wistfully about being a humble hyperpuissant[20]

“…Show humility rather than just talk about it. 44 must ask Americans to acknowledge to ourselves and to the world that we have made serious, even tragic, mistakes in the aftermath of September 11–in invading Iraq, in condoning torture and flouting international law, and in denying the very existence of global warming until a hurricane destroyed one of our most beloved cities….

“…Great Satan should make clear that our hubris, as in the old Greek myths, has diminished us and led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Sorry – zoned out for sec – look, nuance is a very fine thing, subtle perhaps – yet does any serious thinking person seriously think acting all pitiful and remorseful will inspire Aegypt to stop tormenting girls for life[21] in their horrific Black Veil Brides complexes[22]? Or that Syria might empower non Alliwicious citizens to partake of those Universal Values[23] as Arab League dismantles assorted despotries – holy, secular or royal?

Yes yes and yes – Collectivist China would prob like us more better if Great Satan worked with Shang Hai Co Op[24] to divy up our little sister democrazies like Taiwan, SoKo, Philippines and Nippon into Chinese hands.

Truly any chance for admiration, love, respect and cooperation to forsake new born and long time democrazies like Iraq, Ukrainia and Little Satan into autocratic Ottoman, Persian and Commonwealth orbits?

This is the flaw in the Constrainment approach. Simply put – Great Satan and her League of Hot! Democazies[25] have zero interests in common[26] with the Not Hot League of Autocrazies. Gotta play “Which one of these things is not like the other thing”[27] (with all apologies to Strauss[28] and Sesame Street[29]) instead of the goofy fakebelieve meme that Great Satan must be ‘even handed’ in her dealings with the world.

Instead – Great Satan should be LOLingly proud that certain nation states fully crunk with censorship, faux elections, no elections, gendercide, intolerance[30], secret trials, secret prisons and secret executions are frightened beyond repair at the ever present American spectre hooked up with the World Famous M 16[31]

“…In the seven decades following World War II, when America achieved the dominant position in world affairs[32], realists and idealists have agreed on a number of fundamental ideas [33]about Great Satan’s nat’l sec:

“…American interests[34], rather than global interests, should predominate Great Satan’s policymaking. American leadership, as traditionally defined, is indispensible to promoting the interests of America and American allies, who are our fellow democracies.

Great Satan’s hyperpuissance[35] is a force for good in the world. And, as important as internat’l cooperation can be, any pres should like totally cherish American sovereignty and defend her ability to act independently to protect the American ppl and their interests.

Doctrine of Constrainment rejects all these truths, binds Great Satan’s hair to the floor so tight she can’t even blink and devolves and devalues her status among nation states.

Constrainment is shocking, uncool and a weirdly unAmerican nonAmerican FoPo approach.

Pic – “Imma put on a show kinda girl”[36] with Britney[37]

Endnotes:
  1. “Taming American Power”: http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/stephen_walt__taming_american_power_the_global_response_to_us_primacy_20051128/
  2. risible and not well tho’t out tome : http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2009/10/taming-american-power.html
  3. Weenie Hut Juniors: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2010/01/weenie-hut-juniors.html
  4. Little Satan: http://us.macmillan.com/theisraellobbyandusforeignpolicy
  5. faux academic: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0210/peretz020810.php3
  6. self ‘scribed High Priest : http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/About_Walt
  7. Cult of Stability.: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/realpolitik
  8. Great Satan and her hedonistic hyperpuissant hegemonic hotness: http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/nukevault/ebb245/index.htm
  9. Universal Values: http://nytimes.com/2003/07/17/international/worldspecial/17WEB-BTEX.html?pagewanted=all
  10. Two junior grade Vulcans: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143034896,00.html
  11. “Doctrine of Constrainment.”: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-obama-doctrine-defined/
  12. “Blame Great Satan 1st”: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/san.diego/facts/GOP.speeches.past/84.kirkpatrick.shtml
  13. Something something multilateral institutions : http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2011/04/painting-un.html
  14. Sam Pow: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Samantha-Power-to-be-next-Secretary-of-State-119112959.html
  15. a lot of her stuff is prett cool: http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Hell-America-Age-Genocide/dp/0060541644
  16. a totally theory happy high that prob sounds great in a climate controlled environ like a classroom: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/articles/PowerForceFull.pdf
  17. DeutschBundesKanzler Willi Brandt went down on one knee in the Warsaw ghetto: http://www.news1130.com/news/world/article/153932--german-president-pays-tribute-to-victims-of-warsaw-ghetto-honours-ex-chancellor-willy-brandt
  18. Anne-Marie Slaughter : http://www.state.gov/s/p/115437.htm
  19. emo heavy act : http://www.alternet.org/world/76252/?page=entire
  20. once waxed wistfully about being a humble hyperpuissant: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_3_135/ai_n27988909/
  21. inspire Aegypt to stop tormenting girls for life: http://www.unfpa.org/gender/practices1.htm
  22. Black Veil Brides complexes: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/feminism/black-veil-brides/
  23. Universal Values: http://nytimes.com/2003/07/17/international/worldspecial/17WEB-BTEX.html?pagewanted=all
  24. Shang Hai Co Op: http://www.sectsco.org/EN/
  25. League of Hot! Democazies: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2008/05/league-of-hot-democrazies.html
  26. zero interests in common: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2010/07/cunning.html
  27. Gotta play “Which one of these things is not like the other thing”: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2009/06/which-one-of-these-is-not-like-other.html
  28. Strauss: http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24239
  29. Sesame Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZIvgQ9ik48&feature=player_embedded#at=25
  30. intolerance: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2011/03/sectarian-wars.html
  31. World Famous M 16: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2007/02/world-famous-icon-m16.html
  32. America achieved the dominant position in world affairs: http://bevinalexander.com/books/how-america-got-it-right.htm
  33. fundamental ideas : http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586483609
  34. American interests: http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2010/01/internatl-interests.html
  35. Great Satan’s hyperpuissance: http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1992_Draft_Defense_Planning_Guidance
  36. Pic – “Imma put on a show kinda girl”: http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2011/02/maintaining-american-military/
  37. Britney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhJ_A8XUgc

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