Here is the policy for Finland: "Supercomputing policy is made by a partnership of the academic community (represented by the Ministry of Education (MoE)) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). Funding of the national supercomputer facilities is provided mainly through these two organisations. [...] Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) is the organisation responsible for national supercomputing and networking services and support. It is a non-profit company, whose shareholder is MoE. The Executive Board of CSC has representatives from academia, MoE, FMI and the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), an important customer of CSC. A Scientific Advisory Board, with representatives from all major universities as well as from various academic disciplines, supervises academic supercomputing and networking and sets the framework for advancing computational sciences in Finland."

Fortunately, I have managed to distill the current international policy of USA into a simple form: "We will maintain and increase our hegemony using all possible means, and we will strike down all who are preparing to oppose us." This policy is thinly veiled behind moralistic propaganda. I hope this formulation helps in understanding what the current US statements actually mean.

But war is war, however you speak about it: "We will kill their men and children, and rape their women". Except that "rape" is not politically correct in the USA. And in the Iraq case there is also oil.

I like the rhetoric of USA as little as islamic fundamentalistic propaganda. But the islamists seem to be more honest about their aims.

Americans are said to be good at marketing. What went wrong this time?

My conclusion as a mathematician: The current world situation is an equation without a solution.