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US expert says that America is far worse off reputationally and fiscally as a result of the 20-year war on terror
According to an analyst, the world order is “no better off” and the United States is “definitely considerably poorer off — reputationally and monetarily” 20 years after it launched post-9/11 wars on terror.
“I would propose that the last 20 years, and more generally the years since the Cold War’s conclusion, will rank as among the most disastrous times in the history of US foreign policy,” Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Following the Cold War, the US “could have chosen global leadership by consensus,” according to Gupta. However, it opted to “impose an America-dictated image of order on the world.”
Gupta stated that after the incident, America had the world’s sympathy and support. “Yet, the US pressed ahead into Afghanistan with it’s my way or the highway’ attitude and has now departed Afghanistan with the same attitude.”
Other ongoing “wars of choice” were also launched by the US during these 20 years, “many of them illegal under international law, and which have rained death and destruction on hundreds of thousands of human beings across Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and the Arab world,” he claimed.
With more than 47,000 Afghan civilian deaths, 10,000 or more US combat deaths, and over $2 trillion in war-related costs, “the world order is no better off, and America is certainly much poorer off — reputationally and fiscally,” he said, adding that the vision of a partnership of nations united by principles and norms under the multilateral umbrella of the United Nations “has remained.”
According to the expert, “two basic lessons” must be extracted from the last two decades for better global governance.
First, Gupta stated that “the epoch when America’s shoulders were broad enough to support the entire economy and preserve global order alone is definitively past.”
“This needs all parties to rededicate themselves once more to an UN-centered global system,” he continued, with greater responsibility placed on big countries to ensure the success of cooperation.
Second, global concerns such as climate change and pandemics necessitate global solutions, and “during a period of flux in the international system, it is difficult to marshal this collaboration – given disputes about the allocation of benefits and liabilities,” he said.
“Yet, in the absence of genuine cooperation, all parties will unquestionably be significantly worse off,” he warned. “As a result, the systemic order must discover methods to avoid the ‘Kindleberger Trap,’ ensuring that the large incumbent powers and major emerging powers, in concert and separately, provide their due share of global public goods,” he added.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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