Conclusion
In 1996, on CBS's "60 minutes", Madeleine Albright shocked the world stating that the death of 500.000 children may be the price to pay to ensure American safety. We are not talking about 500.000 children anymore, we are talking about millions of deaths, of wounded, of refugees. American interference is not limited only to the Middle East. The United States intervenes all over the world, in particular in Central and South America (regarded as America's backyard). But, it's in the Middle East where American interventions have been the most massive and the most destructive, with the exception, perhaps, of Vietnam. From a humanitarian perspective, it is not a disaster, it is a crime. This hegemonic policy is the work of an oligarchy. The American people have nothing to do with it. If anything, they are isolationists. Ironically, the policy produces a result opposite to the one sought after. It generates a precarious security through an uncontrollable and unending series of events which produces more violence. It generated 9/11 which led to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. It is now reaching a peak with a Russian face-off in Syria.
The United States must redefine their vital interests in the spirit of the Westphalia Treaty's and United Nations' principles -- the only ones lasting peace may rest on. Hegemony leads to failure or worse to the Apocalypse.
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