PNN – In an analysis, referring to the common view of advisers close to Kamala Harris, Foreign Policy wrote about the need to reduce American ambitions: The United States must abandon the obsolete strategic priority of striving for a liberal international order and seriously reduce its global role.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, from this American analytical media, in the works authored by Philip Gordon, the national security adviser, Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate in the US presidential elections, and Rebecca Lissner, her deputy, outline the new worldview of the United States and warn about the results of Washington’s past excesses.
As the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris supported the approach of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, which is based on the hegemonic worldview that all American presidents have adopted since World War II, and said in a speech in 2023: “A strong America is essential to the world.” Meanwhile, Gordon and Leissner, two figures close to Harris, have emphasized that the United States should reduce its ambitions and prepare for a “less great” America. Therefore, if Harris is elected as the US president in November, the United States may not adopt the approach of previous US presidents, according to the thinking of his top advisers.
Lissner and his co-author, Myra Rapp-Hooper, director of the Biden National Security Council for East Asia and the Pacific, in the book “The Open World: How America Can Win the Race for the 21st Century Order,” argues that the United States should seriously reduce its global role rather than trying to remain at the top of an undisputed hegemony. It is time for Washington to realize its (allegedly) “Messianic” goal of changing the world – which has been the basic approach of US policy since the days of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, the former presidents of the United States, will return. Instead of this outdated version of politics, the two suggest America should assume a much more limited role and focus solely on maintaining an open world system in which the United States can thrive.
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According to the article, Lissner and Rapp Hooper argue in their book that as the era of unipolarity declines, any illusions about the ability of the United States to unilaterally create a global order based on its liberal preferences must also diminish. This new approach means abandoning ideological crusades or containment strategies in favor of keeping trade open and fostering cooperation on critical issues such as climate change, future pandemics, and artificial intelligence. US policies of containment and hegemony should be replaced by a much simpler goal of ensuring an “accessible global commons”.
Foreign Policy added: Gordon agrees with Leissner and Rapp Hooper, at least on the need to end the messianic push in US foreign policy. In his book “Losing a Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East”, he describes various failed attempts by the United States in the Middle East dating back 70 years to the CIA’s ouster of Iranian President Mohammad Mossadegh. has been heavily investigated. In this book, the failed interventions of the United States in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria are studied.
In a part of this analysis, referring to the results of these surveys, it is stated: Gordon argues that regime change almost never works, an example of which is a situation where a madman tries something over and over and thinks he might get a different result. US policymakers never seem to learn the right lessons. From examining the coup in Iran in 1953, two disastrous parts about Afghanistan (1980 and after September 11), the disastrous attack on Iraq in 2003, the inappropriate efforts in Egypt, Libya and Syria after the Arab Spring in 2011 the single model in American foreign policy has arrived.
In a part of this article, Foreign Policy said: In his 2020 book Dragons and Serpents: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen wrote, criticizing the U.S. global approach: Over the past two decades, this (alleged) superpower has only allowed itself to be caught up in a seemingly endless string of continuous and inconclusive wars, which has wasted its energy while its rivals have flourished.
This analysis further added: These failures have helped create a deep divide in American politics. An issue that led Leisner and Rap Hooper to conclude that traditional US leadership was no longer tenable. Together, these major policy blunders have helped discredit the political establishment in Washington, paving the way for former US President Donald Trump and his neo-isolationist “America First”.
The final part of the analysis reads: Gordon and Leissner, two top foreign policy advisers, the woman who may soon become the next president of the United States, are crafting America’s anti-interventionist drive for decades to come.