The Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano today bore the headline, “Negotiations in Riyadh, Whining in Paris.” This is quite literal: there is no better metaphor of the events that unfolded at the Munich Security Conference than its Chairman Christoph Heusgen’s concluding speech. After saying that it is now clear that the United States and “Europe” no longer have a common basis, Heusgen broke into tears and could not finish his speech. He was consoled by a lady who embraced him.
Heusgen’s emotional breakdown is explained with the fact that everything he worked for over three decades is now destroyed. As the coming issue of the weekly newsletter EIR Strategic Alert Service will report, Heusgen “has been a key architect of the EU Common Security and Defense Policy, which he drafted in response to the Franco-German break with the U.S.A. on the Iraq war in 2003. He drafted that strategic paper together with Robert Cooper, when they both were assistants to Javier Solana, EU Special Representative of Foreign and Security Policy. Heusgen and Cooper went back and forth across the Atlantic to make sure that the new policy would reflect Washington’s views.
“Robert Cooper, Heusgen’s colleague in the endeavor, was not just anyone. A former director of the British Foreign Office, Cooper is known for his doctrine of ‘new liberal imperialism,’ which he formulated in his 2002 book The Post-Modern State. Before working under Solana in the EU, Cooper was Tony Blair’s speechwriter, and helped in shaping Blair’s regime change interventionism under the guise of ‘Responsibility To Protect’ (R2P).
