What to do Next? by William Pfaff

What to do Next?

William Pfaff

http://www.williampfaff.com/article.php?storyid=671

Paris, March 26, 2014 – Here again in the Ukrainian affair we see the Manichean habits of mind of the Cold War, still the most powerful precedent in the last fifty years of American and Western political history and policy studies.

Among commentators and officials the tendency continues to be to frame international affairs in bi-polar terms, as obviously has been the case for the whole “global war against violent extremism” -- as George W. Bush’s “war against Global terror” was renamed by the Obama administration: a war which, under any name, self-evidently has no conceivable possibility of being won.