Arab views on Obama’s “National Security Strategy”: Nothing changed

Con­trary to the U.S. PR reports say­ing that Arabs are happy with Obama’s NSS, abol­ish­ing ‘war on ter­ror’, focus­ing on Al-Qaeda. The real­ity is that Arabs see no change in this strat­egy, and here are the evidence:

Here is a well known writer Nicola Nasser:

Obama’s “National Secu­rity Strat­egy” pub­lished by the White House last week, is just a legal enti­tle­ment to the U.S. Con­gress required by each new admin­is­tra­tion and its pres­i­dent, a “non-binding” doc­u­ment … A new chap­ter of a media PR cam­paign launched by this admin­is­tra­tion to improve the image of the United States as part of psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare to cover the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pak­istan to increase its mil­i­tary buildup in the region to sup­port the U.S. war effort in the major com­bat arenas.

Has­san Al-Barari, sum­moned “Al Qaeda in U.S. national secu­rity strat­egy”:

In short, the United States’ pol­icy even before the new strate­gic pol­icy is to iso­late Al-Qaeda through the engage­ment with the Mus­lim world on the basis of mutual respect and diplo­macy rather than uni­lat­eral, one-way (mil­i­tarism). But Wash­ing­ton failed to under­stand until now that the depri­va­tion of extrem­ist orga­ni­za­tions from their abil­ity to recruit more vol­un­teers come if the U.S. changes its poli­cies and con­tributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This is Al-Khaleej Op-ed:

What is dif­fer­ent between Obama pol­icy in his new strat­egy from George Bush strat­egy, are two things: 1– sep­a­ra­tion between ter­ror­ism and Islam, 2– giv­ing up of pre-emption and uni­lat­eral wars.

But in terms of con­tent and objec­tives, both poli­cies meet each oth­ers, espe­cially in the issues of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the first, the war is expand­ing and get­ting fiercer, and in the sec­ond, the par­tial with­drawal does not mean that Iraq will become free, but will remain under occu­pa­tion, which will hide in its mil­i­tary bases, although in smaller num­bers, but the occu­pa­tion will con­tinue to mon­i­tor and pro­tect the oil fields.

This is Jor­dan­ian Al-Rai “The new U.S. strat­egy .. noth­ing new”:

Chang­ing the terms in Obama’s new strat­egy means that Al-Qaeda won its war against the U.S., and has suc­ceeded in get­ting the U.S. into the region from Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Pak­istan, and now Yemen, and the day after Somalia.

Now, another suc­cess for Al-Qaeda by forc­ing the Wash­ing­ton to declare pub­licly that there is no enemy in this uni­verse other than Al-Qaeda, and the new mil­i­tary strat­egy in the region is uneth­i­cal, a secret war of mur­ders and assassinations.