EMPIRE TO SERVE AND PROTECT

Empires came and fell, and others will come and disappear, it's like a cycle of life and death, power and glory.

The problem is not concerned about the duration of empires, but the lines in black and white that left recorded in human history and its side effects.

The Roman Empire made its mark by being a system of territorial conquest, basically, with subsequent control under the whip of Rome and its military power and strategy.

The Roman Empire was gone in 476 AD under the command of Romulus Augustus. This empire finished because the several invasion of barbarian people, in fact barbarian means the group of warriors that could speak Latin language and lived abroad.

Alexander the Great (the Great) attempted to perpetuate itself through conquest of other equally vast and powerful empire that was also outright taking new spaces of lands and subsequent military control, a recipe that never worked.

Then came the Third Reich in the XX century that lasted even less. In this case the mankind had to pay the price and lost more than fifty million deaths.

The U.S. established themselves as another empire, though any American would deny his existence simply by the absence of a king, but not by his classic conqueror behavior in this case reaching a little success, it is true.

Conquest, greed, irresponsibility, dreams of a stupendous and absolute power above all are not worthy and destroy solid pillars to give long-term imperial sustainability.

See the ancient and all-powerful USSR, Union of Soviet Republics, who tried to force uniting different cultures so vast land, livelihoods so diametrically opposed.

The cement found to give support was a zero tolerance regime with opponents of any kind and the economy faces plastered over to pure and simple concept to grow inexorably with its military forces one more empire simply just gone.

For decades the atomic welding was able to hold the pre-existing tension, but faded with time as sandcastles.

The imperial concept changed with the time of human history, changed its focus and changed where people can reach with his huge arms.

A classic example is the U.S. and its eternal desire for democratization of the people in conflict. The main mistake of the American empire, now in full decay is inherent in the nature of a complex imperial democracy that always wants to work in the short term, so immediate.

All that it can be summed up is the old adage of doing the task preferably by remote control in the shortest time and return home yesterday if possible.

The most recent case in our study was the American role in the attempted democratization of Iraq after its invasion and death of the leader Sadan Houssein.

To get this job and kill old dictator the U.S. created a story of horror and crime involving weapons of mass destruction, both biological and chemical, in fact it was all a trick to safeguard, in fact, the oil wealth that could never be under the power of a corrupt government, monochromatic, idiosyncratic and extremist endangering the huge deposits of oil.

Thanks for the effort to put a rope around the neck of Sadan and try to give some peace there, of course the wrong way to put order in that miserable piece of land so far away.

The U.S. President George W Bush (son) was grotesquely badly advised in Iraqi enterprise, especially in observing some principles of maintaining peace and building democracy envisioned by former leader of the British Liberal Party, Mr. Paddy Ashdown, when he learned the hard way the role of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina gastrointestinal war, a position created in the womb of the Dayton Peace Agreement (1995 Ohio - USA):

1- The first principle is to have a complete plan drawn up and pay attention to it. The U.S. went to Iraq to kill Sadan and take care of oil reserves. That is it. A plan so weak and nobody became responsible involved or lead a process of post-invasion Iraq reconstruction:

2- The principle number two: a construction the legal basis for a demand of this nature: even more important than establishing democracy itself. Building a solid legal basis that can solidify the rule of law and the law power can provide a scenario of natural stability.

3- The number three, establish an empire of credibility. The sooner this could have happened less challenges have arisen and therefore less problems;

4- Start immediate structural reforms: fiscal policy, industry customs, shield the judiciary with safeguards consistent laws and change the role of the armed forces;

5- Grease the gears of the international community so that it also works within a new scenario of a country under reconstruction;

6- Avoid giving deadlines inside this process of rebuild a nation. It’s required time to preparing and represents an act of long duration and perseverance. Install the idea of ​​a freedom and open society in a severely religious Iraq environment n and fights between people of different ethnicities is at least imagine a work of three generations in a row: one to release the general idea, the second to prepare the soil and another to work it and assimilate it.

7- Finally, take a policy direction to deals with new the scenario of peace located in a secure and prosperous democratic state.

The central point of the mistake occurred in Iraq crisis was the very short time expended with one failure initial plan. Kills Sadan and get back home?

More than screaming out that Iraq was free from Sadan Hossein was helping the Iraq people build diverse systems such as: health care, transportation, education,  new system of credit prepared to assist the local entrepreneurship and finally help an education program for technical training lending to them the best American heads of Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities.

That's exactly what the British Empire tried to do in India. Without much success is quite true, because the English have forgotten to help Indians in population control that exploded when the country emerged from an almost medieval era to a world full of new railways trade and capital movement.

What the British did was not enough to take the millions of subsistence farmers’ line and certainly insufficient in number to serve a population in severe growth worsened the dramatic local habit to gather gold.

Although partially successful, the British pledged to the neck with an original plan and lent to India in time your best decade’s economists, scientists, doctors, engineers and teachers. And they all moved there.

Too important this paragraph!

There are today among the Indian population several families from English origin that adds millions perhaps who have embraced this country as homeland. American did the same? Where? When?

Never a U.S. plan takes this idea as a pure reality or could make sense.

The order was to kill Sadan and get out abandoning the Iraq people to their own destiny.

If the U.S. wants there is enough time to do so. It is necessary an only consult the history and pass the carbon paper acting successes what the English empire did, a real globalization that helped former British colonies to be today's big emerging nations: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and why not India as the country is now part of a select club of countries with GDP growing like sands in the sand storm.

President Obama, thank you for your attention. And God bless you and great America.

Lopes, Magno Almeida is a writer and journalist, foreign trade manager, LAN network engineer and university teacher in Brazil.