viernes, 18 de marzo de 2011

Debate interno sobre Libia en la Administración Obama

La clásica división de halcones (idealistas, wilsonianos, defensores de la demcoracia o los derechos humanos) y palomas (realistas, pragmáticos, enfoque George Kennan).

Publicado en Foreign Policy:

(...) Inside the administration, senior officials were lined up on both sides. Pushing for military intervention was a group of NSC staffers including Samantha Power, NSC senior director for multilateral engagement; Gayle Smith, NSC senior director for global development; and Mike McFaul, NSC senior director for Russia, who has 30-plus-years of experience advocating for democracy and human rights. Vice President Joe Biden also was a supporter of imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, an administration official said.

On the other side of the ledger were some Obama administration officials who were reportedly wary of the second- and third-degree effects of committing to a lengthy military mission in Libya. These officials included National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was also opposed to attacking Libya and had said as much in several public statements.

Not all of these officials were in Tuesday night's meeting.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called into the meeting over the phone, a State Department official confirmed. She was traveling in the region to get a first-hand look at how the new U.S. Middle East strategy is being received across the Arab world. Denied a visit with Egyptian youth leaders on the same day she strolled through Tahir Square, Clinton may have been concerned that the United States was losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the Arab youth at the heart of the revolution.

When Clinton met with the G8 foreign ministers on Monday, she didn't lay out whether the United States had a favored response to the unfolding crisis in Libya, leaving her European counterparts completely puzzled. She met Libyan opposition leader Mahmoud Jibril in Paris but declined to respond positively to his request for assistance. This all gave the impression that Clinton was resisting intervention. In fact, she supported intervention, State Department official said, but had to wait until the Tuesday night meeting so that she didn't get out ahead of U.S. policy.

(...) Inside the NSC, Power, Smith, and McFaul have been trying to figure out how the administration could implement R2P and what doing so would require of the White House going forward. Donilon and McDonough are charged with keeping America's core national interests more in mind. Obama ultimately sided with Clinton and those pushing R2P -- over the objections of Donilon and Gates.

(...) Obama's Tuesday night decision to push for armed intervention was not only a defining moment in his ever-evolving foreign policy, but also may have marked the end of the alliance between Clinton and Gates -- an alliance that has successfully influenced administration foreign policy decisions dating back to the 2009 Afghanistan strategy review.

"Gates is clearly not on board with what's going on and now the Defense Department may have an entirely another war on its hands that he's not into," said Clemons. "Clinton won the bureaucratic battle to use DOD resources to achieve what's essentially the State Department's objective... and Obama let it happen." (...)

5 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

El equipo de seguridad de Obama es peor que el de Carter. Dan pena verlos. Clinton, Gates y Donilom no saben por donde les da el aire. Su actuación ha demostrado descordinacion en el mejor de los casos.

Estoy seguro que el equipo de seguridad de Romney, si finalmente llegase a la Casa Blanca, sería completamente distinto donde me imagino que los Generales Hyde o McCristal jugarían un papel fundamental y trascendente unido a los James Woolsley ( creo que este ultimo fue directos de la CIA con el Presidente Clinton )etc.

Y aquí en España quiero ver salir a los titiriteros y sinvergüenzas de los Barden abd company con su Kenia "NO A LA GUERRA" o ya a a esta gentuza se les ha olvidado?

Miguel

MDF15C dijo...

El Secretario Gates pertenece a ese selecto grupo de personas que piensan que si ellos hacen ver que los demas no existen, los problemas no llegaran hasta tu hogar. Otro que pertenecia a ese mismo club era el presidente Bush, hasta que el 9/11 le obligo a tener que romper su tarjeta de socio.

Pero es curioso ese aislacionismo al que parece haberse convertido el Secretario de Defensa, porque no era muy aislacionista cuando pedia ataques aereos contra Nicaragua en 1984.

Anónimo dijo...

Este es el peor equipo de seguridad que se recuerda. Gadafi le está chuleando y su compañéro de religión, HUSSEIN Obama, no parece importarlo demasiado. Cada día que pasa no me explico como este pájaro llegó a Presidente de Estados Unidos. Es el mayor error de la historia de esta país desde la intervención en Vietnan.

En España tenemos al hombre de la paz infinita, del amor a los pobles y no se cuantas tonterías sacadas del testamento de su abuelo......en fin que llego a la conclusión que muy mal lo deberieron de hacer el Presidente Bush y el Presidente Aznar para que los respectivos pueblo eligiesen personajes de esta calaña. Lo de Estados Unidos me sorprendió más.....después del terrible atentados terrorista del 11 de septiembre perpertrado por criminales terroristas islámicos...............van y eligen a un musulman. Decía mi abuela que sarna con gusto no pica.

Miguel

Antxon G. dijo...

Gates ha sido siempre un discípulo de Brent Scowcroft, que ha sido uno de lso máximos exponentes de la escuela realista.

Anónimo dijo...

La dejación de funciones que está haciendo la Administración Obama es de la que crean escuela. Por favor que llegue ya el 2012 y que el pueblo estadounidense mande a su casa a este señor. Nunca Estados Unidos ha bía tenido un presidente de esta índole, ni Carter, que está ocupándose de poner fin al sueño americano..........y ese es quizás su meta.