The Foreign Policy of Mass Society: The Failure of Western Engagement in the Islamic World

by Matthew Johnson

The “war on terror” is a failure. From the events of 9-11 to the present surrender negotiations, successes have been rare and failures are now the norm. The literature on Afghanistan from the beginning of the Soviet war in 1978-1979 to the start of American intervention in the Fall of 2001 is immense and growing daily. As of the Spring of 2015, the reports coming out of the country are uniformly negative. Words like “failure” and “farce” are coming out of even the mainstream press. The thesis of this present work is that not only is the war a failure (which in 2019 is not controversial), but that the group of variables that led to the defeat of “coalition” forces are of immense complexity. The simple argument is this – peace is not coming to Afghanistan because of its strategic location. She is a major pipeline source for oil going to the East, to China, and to the West and North. It is now uncontroversial that these motives are dominant and possible critical to the future of the indebted and weak US economy. Closer to home, its proof of the incompetence and failure of the multi-trillion dollar American military, foreign policy establishment and intellectual class. While people in these groups pull down six figures (at least), pin medals on themselves or give themselves pompous titles, its just a cover for the radical failure of their enterprise and that of the capitalist, liberal west they represent. They are servants of a dying empire based on nothing but Postmodern, profit-driven nihilism.

107 pages, Paperback

Published November 29, 2019

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