April 2011 - Centre for Civil Society - University of KwaZulu-Natal

The concept of America as "Light of the World" returns to the myth of the
predestined nation, the only one that can save mankind.
Obama, in the synthesis of what was done and not done in the field of
international politics, clarifies this concept by expressing pride in the
mission accomplished in Iraq, "where nearly 100,000 of our men and
women left with their heads held high." Obviously he omitted that tens of
thousands of American soldiers continue to occupy that plundered and
vandalized country.
Incidentally, the same day he uttered his speech, more than 50 Iraqis died
in Baghdad as a result of a bomb. Later in the evening, just as many were
killed. Images of the Pax Americana.
Identical pride was expressed about the course of things in Afghanistan,
one of the expressed priorities of his foreign policy, a country attacked
where an army of more than 100 thousand U.S. soldiers and contractors
(backed by 60,000 from NATO) are waging a genocidal war which killed
tens of thousands of Afghan civilians.
The President is also feeling satisfaction for "revitalising and expanding
NATO with our cooperation in everything from anti-terrorism to missile
defense."
Translated into ordinary language, that does not distort reality, Obama
rejoices over the new strategic concept of NATO to enabling him to act on
a global scale where and when Washington wants. The militarisation of
space under U.S. hegemony is another goal for him. He sees it as a
deserving project worthy of the gratitude of his countrymen.
He did not speak of the seven bases that the U.S. will install in Colombia
or the presence of the U.S. Navy's Fourth Fleet in the waters South
America, repudiated by the peoples of the region.
He announced that in March this year he will travel to Brazil, Chile and El
Salvador to "forge new alliances throughout the Americas." He did not
specify what kind of alliances, expressing, however, satisfaction with the
bilateral agreements signed with Panama and Colombia, two countries
semi-colonised by the U.S.A.
Reading the State of the Union speech confirms that President Obama will
give continuity to a foreign policy less noisy, but no less dangerous to
humanity than that of George Bush.
It would be lacking not to note that many minutes of his rhetorical and
grandiloquent speech were devoted to the evocation of individual
successes of unknown young Americans he pointed to as examples of the
superiority of the American way of life.
The closure does not clash with the spirit of a messianic message. Inspired
by the founding fathers of the nation, Barack Obama, citing his example,
affirms his belief that it is "thanks to our people that our future is full of
hope." And he concludes:
"Thank you, God bless you and God bless the United States of America."
Strange is invoking the divine one adopted by the U.S. President, glorified
by the big European bourgeoisie.
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