Chomsky, Brzezinski and the allegation of terrorism in the american strategy for the global primacy

1- Latin America: An American Private Hunting Ground.

One of the major lacks of the «Grand Chessboard» is the negligence of a so vital sphere, as the Latin American one. This negligence might be through the placed occupied by the Monroe Doctrine in the American foreign Policy, and the fact to consider the subcontinent as the American Private Hunting Ground. In other words, the Latin-American subcontinent belongs totally to USA influence sphere, and it's hegemony on the region could not be threatened. According to that, a brief definition of what the Monroe Doctrine must be given.

The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 constitutes one of the major turning points of American foreign policy. Generations of American Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan have involved it in putting forward foreign policies designed to keep «foreign» influences out of the Western Hemisphere».

The Hegemonic domination tries to finds its legitimacy in the doctrine's major principles that can summed up in the following quotation «America to Americans», and the doctrine of the Manifest Destiny, that wants that the USA must be the guardian of his neighbors, and that it will protect them from any menace or threat. In the second half of 20^th century, the threat was Called Communism. After the end of the World War II, the will of stopping «Red Expansion» will improve what has been called the «Truman Doctrine». In the Americas, that barrier is going take the form of an Organization, namely; «The Organization of American States» in 1948.

(18)Monroe Doctrine, Glenn Hastedt, Encyclopedia of SAmerican Foreign Policy, Facts on files,Inc; New York, 2004, Pages 318.

The success of the Cuban Revolution leaded by «Fidel Castro» and «Ernesto Guevara», increased the US phobia, and gave the awareness of the necessity for the US government to take radical measures. At that point President J.F. Kennedy will take many crucial decisions that will mark the future of Latin America.

Among them we can name the one concerning the military field and the one concerning the social one. Despite the differences, these measures are going to be complementary to each other. On the military field and as Noam Chomsky states J.F.K. adopted what has been called «La Doctrina de Seguridad Nacional» or «The National security doctrine» ^(19). This military doctrine consisted in changing the concept on the enemy within the Latin American Armed Forces. In fact, the notion of «Enemy» is going to be changed from the external to internal. In other words, the enemy was not more the foreign one, but the enemy comes from inside. The enemy will be then, the farmer's class, the proletariat, the unionists, indigenous, Human rights defenders, and all the political opposition, above all the leftist one. This doctrine contributed deeply in the setting and the strengthening, of military and bloody dictatorships all around the continent.

The social Kennedy's Administration's program consists of setting up «The Alliance for Progress».

In March 1961, President Kennedy proposed a ten-year plan for Latin America:

« ...we propose to complete the revolution of the Americas, to build a

(19)Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival : Americas's Quest for the global Dominance, p 104. »

hemisphere where all men can hope for a suitable standard of living and all can live out their lives in dignity and in freedom. To achieve this goal political freedom must accompany material progress...Let us once again transform the American Continent into a vast crucible of revolutionary ideas and efforts, a tribute to the power of the creative energies of free men and women, an example to all the world that liberty and progress walk hand in hand. Let us once again awaken our American revolution until it guides the struggles of people everywhere-not with an imperialism of force or fear but the rule of courage and freedom and hope for the future of man.''²⁰⁾

AS well as President Kennedy hope and desire were, one must usually doubt of the political speech. The alliance for the progress entered in kind of containment policy. It was a tool of the US Administration to control the development of Latin America countries, and above all efficient tools to kick out communism from its traditional influence sphere. The revolution Kennedy talked about was a fake one. It was a pseudo revolution proposed by USA to break and brake the progress of the Cuban revolution in Latin America.

To come back to our basic theory, Brzezinski did not give enough place to the subcontinent within his global primacy theory. The main reason was surely the Axiom that, Latin America was and still be considered as an American Private Hunting Ground, which belong to them and to them only. Nonetheless, the growing number of many dissident governments is going to guide him to adopt different strategies within the subcontinent.

(20)"President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress, 1961". Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961kennedy-afp1.html. Retrieved 2006-07-30.