They’re up to it again.  The Obama administration is once again showing its hawk feathers.  In a recent public meeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made multiple statements in an attempt to compel the Pakistani government to further its anti-terrorist movements.  After completing initial military actions in South Waziristan, Secretary Clinton is pressing the Pakistani military to step up military action in the area in order to root out other terrorist groups.

While this strategy may seem necessary to “ensure” the security of American interests, increasing military action on behalf of American interests is not the way to defeat terrorism.  Like any other organization, terrorists cannot function with a rational interest that is appealing enough to attract recruits and shore up community support.  Contrary to the hyper-sensationalized views held by the left and right, so-called “Islamofascism” is not a product of irrational religious fanatics; terrorism is a political reaction to overextension of American presence in the international scene.  Terrorism is a political reaction to the inorganic process of global McDonaldization that has resulted from American military dominance.  Instead of allowing for the organic accumulation of international relations, the overexpansion of American global presence has sparked a reaction from those cultures not willing to coalesce to western society.  Even the David Horowitz (the right-wing propagandist whose career thrives on sensationalizing terrorism) acknowledges this point.  Watch this video and tell me which view of terrorism makes more sense: the rational actors who must address organizational needs, political incentives, and ideological constraints, or the deranged mad-men in tablecloths wanting to kill the entire Western world and convert us all to Islam.

So while Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration can push for increased American presence in South Asia and the Middle East, they fail to realize the true nature of terrorism.  Instead of embracing a rational position in regard to American strength and global duty, the Obama administration, much like the former Bush administration, engage in the ignorance of American exceptionalism that is necessary to justify poorly informed action.

Here’s the rational viewpoint:

America cannot continue a policy of foreign intervention and global hegemony and expect everyone in the world to not react to the policies of unnatural globalization and mercantilism that result (inadvertently) from global military dominance.