Eternal wars and strategy of hiding the ball here and there

An American researcher says that President Biden is playing a game of hide the ball with America's "eternal wars." In his public statements, he portrays his administration as working hard to undo many of America's military adventures, which occurred after the 9/11 attacks. He has delivered a number of speeches since last May, declaring the end of the US war in Afghanistan and setting a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces by September, with the twenty-first anniversary of the fateful event.

In the previous April, the administration had also reached a tacit agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to officially end the US combat mission in Iraq. At the time, a senior Biden administration official said, "There will be no US military forces in a combat role in Iraq by the end of the year." This and that has already happened, although the experience of Afghanistan carried with it additional loads of blame and criticism.

This term “hiding the ball” goes back to American football, when a midfielder, or any other player, hides the ball, so that the other team does not know where it is, so the team that hid it can easily score a goal. It is a purely American term, used especially by lawyers or prosecutors, to denote the process of withholding evidence, which will lead to them losing their cases. 

Naturally, the writer means that Biden and his administration will not stop using these conflicts in their foreign policy, to impose outcomes in favor of American hegemony. . There are other permanent or sustainable wars in Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Palestine. No one came to her biography, except for Syria, which does not attract much attention, given the size of the American force employed and the nature of its specializations outside of confrontation and danger. In Yemen, there is interference in armaments, ammunition and logistical or electronic services. Operations based on drones, missiles, or bombing from ships or from the air will not stop, and this is not a small thing, although some adjustments can be made outside the times of elections or their unresolved competitions.

In fact, we have our permanent and sustained wars, eternal or infinite, ever continuing, which are themselves reflections of their wars, or manifestations of our impotence and inactivity. These are wars that the ruling elites deeply depend on for their permanence and good investment. Perhaps it is time to reconsider them, and to try to be aware of the reasons for the stagnation of time, because by being keen on revolutionary constants as Marx and Engels aimed in their youth, and as expressed by Leon Trotsky in his theory of continuous revolution, we may miss the possibility of owning some space in the future, by focusing on the occupation of Space from the past, our elites often hide the ball, to preserve interests and this is legitimate, or to prevail opinion, and this is illegal; In both cases, there is an error, which results in rotation in the place, or a reversal of the situation, or confusion from which there is no way out. Democratic regimes hide their balls when their eternal wars stop, and our regimes hide them despite their differences until we perpetuate their own wars.

Biden and his administration will not stop using conflicts in their foreign policy, to impose outcomes in favor of American hegemony

The first of these local “conflicts” and the most permanent, it began with the old question of “how the West advanced and left us behind,” then deviated to a conflict between those who advocate originality and those who advocate modernity, and to a conflict between Arabism and Islam, the national association and the Islamic university, democracy and “just” tyranny, and the preservation of identity in the face of Its demise or the disappearance of its bright colors, with the alleged surrender to Orientalism, colonialism, modernity, and the strange values ​​of the West, etc.

In a democracy, victory in war motivates generals' ambitions to seize power themselves—as Caesar and Sulla did in the Roman Republic—or to consolidate power in the government at the expense of civil society.

In tyrannical countries, tyrants are keen to maintain the state of war, in order to fortify their absolute control from the “greedy.” The perpetuation of wars in our east is much more than in their west, and their damages are more general and greater. It happens with a deep-rooted conflict, which lies for generations and then erupts for generations, that sometimes and in the modern era in particular, turns into a socio-political suicide, as is the case in the Sunni-Shiite conflict. The latter has aged fifteen centuries, and is still included in the earth as if it is in the rupture of youth, or born in the twentieth century. He finds space for his hidden movement, including Iran and its east, the Arabs and their west, and in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Afghanistan.

In Syria, the situation was comfortable for decades, especially in the era of the Cold War, when authoritarianism flourished in the region, and various autocracies, hereditary by basic design, or hereditary emerging, proliferated at the expense of hastily cooked colonial liberalism. Just as Gaddafi relied on tribalism in the context of his family’s inheritance, Assad the father relied on sectarianism to implement his plan.

When the conflict with the Syrian people unfolded, the regime’s sectarianism was exposed first, then opened to illegal kinship and the mechanisms of the Sunni-Shiite conflict in its wider circle, to settle in the bosom of Iran, love or hate it makes no difference. This conflict has two parties, each of whom bears his share of the burdens, when he uses illegal weapons in his war.

Just as Gaddafi relied on tribalism in the context of his family’s inheritance, Assad the father relied on sectarianism to implement his plan.

When the conflict with the Syrian people unfolded, the regime’s sectarianism was exposed first, then opened to illegal kinship and the mechanisms of the Sunni-Shiite conflict in its wider circle, to settle in the bosom of Iran, love or hate it makes no difference. This conflict has two parties, each of whom bears his share of the burdens, when he uses illegal weapons in his war. Just as Gaddafi relied on tribalism in the context of his family’s inheritance, Assad the father relied on sectarianism to implement his plan… When the conflict with the Syrian people unfolded, the regime’s sectarianism was exposed first, then opened to illegal kinship and the mechanisms of the Sunni-Shiite conflict in its wider circle, to settle in the bosom of Iran, love or hate it makes no difference. This conflict has two parties, each of whom bears his share of the burdens, when he uses illegal weapons in his war.

On the ground there is also a long-standing conflict, which we inherited from the two world wars, that of the Palestinian-Israeli, or the Arab-Israeli. After the two wars, several wars in the region were based on the legacy of this conflict, and the inability of the world to provide a just solution to it, with the weight of guilt that feeds itself. The West relied on continuing to support Israel for its own reasons, then, and in supporting the tyranny that is rampant in the region to sustain Israeli supremacy, in addition to ensuring the continued flow of oil, and so on.

Thus, the Palestinian cause lived for us as a central issue, above the issues of progress, democracy, human rights, development and modernity in general. It was a central issue sheltering the legitimate grievances of millions of Palestinians, perpetuated by tyrants as an instrument of silence, starvation, robbery and crucifixion. It was not enough for it to be a basic issue, for example, or an issue in which we do not relinquish our rights. Rather, it should have been “central” to prevent the endorsement of other issues, and no voice should be louder than the sound of the battle.

Since the late twentieth century, concepts of eternal, permanent, or continuous war have been used in the tongues of politicians, and in the writings of observers, to criticize the interventions of the US armed forces in foreign countries, and the strategies of the military-industrial complex; Or to describe wars with mysterious enemies: such as the war on terrorism or the war on drugs.

This opinion does not contradict the invocation of the original antagonism with the delay in all its doors and tyranny of all kinds, nor with the importance of standing in the face of the sweeping Iranian ambitions, which feed on the Sunni-Shiite conflict. , or the defense of Palestinian rights, and solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. It is just a call to think in a “revolutionary” manner along those permanent conflicts, or at least take this into consideration, permanent wars, even when they subside or lie, weaken the possibilities of confronting imminent dangers as it happens With the current pandemic; The process of ending it is never improvised, nervous, or even “elective.”

They all hide the ball, and Biden is not alone in doing so. Syrian writer