Trump worked to break American hypocrisy in the name of democracy since Second World War
I was in America in the first week of March. During my habitual tampering with the cupboard of his hosts, I saw Graham Green’s book The Quout American. The 1955 classic reading in the US, which is very bad and Walkal Donald Trump’s rule, is a restless experience. While reading it, there is a thought that during his second term, as President Trump, Trump has finally worked to remove America away from his institutional hypocrisy of the last seven decades.
Green’s story is a pessimistic opium British journalist Thomas Fauler and the hero of the story is a gentleman and idealistic American Alden Pile (whose American intelligence agency is pointed to being an agent). The plot is from Southeast Asia when French colonialism was faltering under violent rebellion of communists. The intellectual and ideological prejudice of America, which takes Vietnam away from communists to make him safe for democracy, has been completely wired by the US intellectual and ideological prejudice.
The hero of the novel young American “is completely self -reliant in his innocence and ignorance.” This ignorance is very dangerous. Green writes, “Innocence is like that helpless leper, whose bell has been lost and he is moving around the world as if there is no danger to anyone.”
On the other hand, the English journalist is a disturbed character, who has spent a long time in that area, knows the place and is familiar with the cultural subtleties and the treacherous aspects of revolution politics. He tells the American hero, “People like you and you are engaged in waging war with the help of people who are not interested in it.” He needs a lot of stomach rice, not communism. “Then he reads the formula of the famous American Domino Theory, making fun,” I am aware of the entire record. If you go to Thailand, then Malaysia will go, then Indonesia will also go. The meaning of “will go”? “The hero is not able to catch the pile of the journalist, which is naturally represented by American idea. This Domino Theory finally became the support of the existence of the ‘best and most bright’ people under Kennedy’s rule, which thrown America one after the other in battles. Crores of people of all countries resisted a tremendous resistance to targeted misleading American policies and ideas on stopping the spread of communism.
The British journalist wanted the young American Vietnamis to understand the strength of nationalism. Like all the colonial powers, French also believed that his role is so generous and beneficial that would overshadow the nationalist aspirations. Now Americans were also trapped in the same vicious cycle. In such a situation, the English journalist reminds the young American that all those outsiders who want the good of Vietnamis should always remember one thing, that ‘this country is their.’
The novelists were able to recognize Green American influence and ignorance, due to which the Americans were casualties in Vietnam generations. Despite this, all the American presidents coming forward were craving to bring democracy around the world and safe- first Vietnam, then Afghanistan and Iraq. All such enterprises went in vain. It had a very profound impact on the civilian civilization. Now a President has come and does not give even a single feeling to democracy. Trump is not interested in saving democracy in the world, but he is only engaged in weakening the established democracy of Europe and Canada. In the eyes of Trump, American democracy is the total accumulation of good and evils in itself (as American people have enjoyed democracy here during the last three centuries). There is no such inspiration within Trump that transforms American energies and fantasies to work for ‘Lokmangal’, which is mentioned John F. Kennedy did how many times he did in his preserved President’s period. There is no interest in reducing or removing or removing it as a feeling of anti-America within American friends and enemies.
The hero of Green has so honestly in the American mission that he tells the British that once the communist’s rule comes, the people of Vietnam will lose their freedom of expression. He says, “They have to be considered what they will be told, they will not be given any time to think themselves.” On this, the British journalist despises it, “It is the job of Aiyashi. Do you really feel that when a farmer returns to his hut at night, he would think about God and democracy? ”
Trump, his ‘co-president’ Alan Musk and Vice President J.K. D. Wans must definitely agree with that British character. America has nothing to do with this that Iranian or Chinese or Russian people have to accept the same thing that their ruler is telling them. Trump clearly believes that America should not fall into quarrels between other rulers and their helpless citizens- those rulers should be good, bad or inferior. This departure is probably as important by the ideas of democracy, Suraj, human rights and liberal values as the alleged threat of Trump to use military and money power to fill the bag of aristocratic American businessmen.
Therefore, his decision taken on March 14 does not make any surprise when he signed an executive order cutting the grants of the United States Agency for Global Media. This simply means that the US government will now weaken news establishments subsidized by the US government, such as Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe. This is the same establishment, which used to be the most direct tools of the spread of ‘American values’. For three generations, the strategic knowledge of America has been considered those ‘values’ inherent in the ‘influence’ of the days of Cold War. India was also a ground of the Cold War, where the ‘intellectuals’ was lured and knew in the American and Russian exercise to pull into their court, how many people were insulted and how many people were destroyed. The era was of the fight of the superpowers of the occupation of ‘Dilo Mana’ around the world.
Till recently, Voice of America was seen as the voice of the ‘ruler’ instability and demolitions of other countries. On the contrary, all the ‘rebels’ and ‘disagree’ forces gained validity for their respective struggles from the vowels of support emerged on this medium of propaganda. In the past years, the power-transformation that have been called in many countries, which were called revolutions called different colors, are examples of it. For example, China is still very angry at the role of Voice of America in airing the socio-political upheaval in Hong Kong in 2019-20.
It is very possible that the Trump administration has been sure that Liberal people are full of propagation of propaganda. Whatever be the reason, but the same message has been sent around the world that the President of America is no longer interested in the global fight to establish influence and he is constantly making profit. Therefore, this should be a welcome step in the eyes of the existing autocratic rulers and potential dictators.
People like Green’s hero Alden Pile, who were trapped in the craze of achieving ‘greatness’ by cutting their heads, can undoubtedly dodge.
(Senior journalist and columnist. Thoughts are private)