''The hard truth is that absolutely each of our days is weighed down by the heavy burden of the past.....In essence I am saying that the end of the Cold War created the danger that the ability of the peoples of Africa to determine their destiny would be severely compromised and undermined, and hence the calls for a “new imperialism” in the statements I cited earlier....The US still asserts its manifest destiny to lead the world...It is convinced that its exceptionalism means that, as Secretary Clinton put it, “if you’ve got people who are choosing a different path, then you have to use all the tools of your suasion to try to convince them that the path that you wish to follow is also the one that is in their interest as well.”...It will use all means at its disposal to achieve its geo-strategic objectives....One of these, as explained by Kissinger, is the utilitarian use of democracy and human rights as instruments to achieve defined geo-strategic goals...'''More
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