Carl Bildt
"Jag har tidigare haft anledning att skarpt kritisera det gemensamma rödröda dokumentet om utrikespolitiken inte minst för dess återfall i en primitiv anti-amerikanism – främst genom kravet att alla USA:s militära baser i andra länder skall bort.
Att detta ensidiga krav äventyrar global balans och stabilitet har påpekats av en enig expertkår."
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Ja, det är mycket viktigt att vi lyssnar på experter i den här frågan, Sveriges roll i världen är helt avhängig av att vi är springpojkar åt det amerikanska militärindustriella komplexet.
Vad experter tycker i frågan kan man läsa t ex i The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (established in 1945 by scientists, engineers, and other experts who had created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.)
Empire of bases
By Hugh Gusterson | 10 March 2009
"Before reading this article, try to answer this question: How many military bases does the United States have in other countries: a) 100; b) 300; c) 700; or d) 1,000.
According to the Pentagon's own list PDF, the answer is around 865, but if you include the new bases in Iraq and Afghanistan it is over a thousand. These thousand bases constitute 95 percent of all the military bases any country in the world maintains on any other country's territory. In other words, the United States is to military bases as Heinz is to ketchup.
The old way of doing colonialism, practiced by the Europeans, was to take over entire countries and administer them. But this was clumsy. The United States has pioneered a leaner approach to global empire. As historian Chalmers Johnson says, "America's version of the colony is the military base." The United States, says Johnson, has an "empire of bases."
Mer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases
