Por Que a Política Externa Americana é um Fiasco?

Simples, porque seus formuladores são ignorantes, seus especialistas, “experts”, não sabem porra nenhuma e o consenso é que a força bruta compensa a falta de conhecimento. A maior potência do mundo invadiu o Iraque com base na inteligência dada por um informante conhecido como curve ball... os sucessivos erros no Afeganistão e no Pakistão se devem, entre outros, a influência de dois picaretas: Both Stewart and Mortenson illustrate one particular configuration of the relationship between knowledge and the American empire - the "non-expert" insider who can traverse that unknown terrain and, hence, become an "expert". Even a cursory examination of the archive dealing with the American efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan demonstrates that there has been no related growth in specific scholarly knowledge about those sites of conflict. The knowledge of Arabic, Urdu or Pashto remains at extremely low levels in official corridors. There is, one can surmise simply from reading the back and forth sway of military and political policy in Afghanistan, very little advancement in understanding of either the text or context of that nation.