CFR Elites Seek Renewed Military Spending Around the World

New World Order is New World Disorder … Richard Haass, president at Council on Foreign Relations, discusses this weekend's attacks in Turkey and the Ivory Coast and the importance of international leadership by the United States. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." – Bloomberg

The Council on Foreign Relations is worried about US domestic disillusionment with foreign involvement including military actions.

Richard Haass, president of the CFR just appeared on Bloomberg in a much-touted video to discuss the "importance of international leadership."

His appearance seems part of a disciplined effort to head off US "isolationism" and his campaign seems to go back at least to 2014.

In late 2014, in a voluminous article in Foreign Affairs entitled "The Unraveling How to Respond to a Disordered World," Haass made the case that though the US would have less influence globally in the 21st century that leaders shouldn't step away from international involvement.

In fact, he says, the US should step up its military spending around the world.

Others have also written about the "unraveling", such as one posted at the New Yorker in October 2015 entitled "The New World Disorder."

The United States needs to put its domestic house in order, Haass believes, both to increase Americans' living standards and to generate the resources needed to sustain an active global role.

He's concerned with what he calls "a perennial tension in the world between forces of order and forces of disorder, with the details of the balance between them defining each era's particular character."

He even frames the tension in terms of the perpetuation of civilization itself.

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Sources of order include actors committed to existing international rules and arrangements and to a process for modifying them; sources of disorder include actors who reject those rules and arrangements in principle and feel free to ignore or undermine them … These days, the balance between order and disorder is shifting toward the latter.

This is a clever rhetorical device as informed critics of the US's role in the world assert that the US's own intelligence agencies helped create and still support various terrorist groups.

In other words, much of the "disorder" that Haass laments has been initiated via Anglosphere funding to create a crisis atmosphere that justifies the perpetuation of a variety of military-industrial complexes, especially in Britain and the US.