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Marzo 25, 2007
La debacle
The Economist hace un balance desolador de los cuatro años de guerra en Irak. No se limita a sostener que fue una buena idea aplicada de forma chapucera, como afirman para justificarse algunas de las luminarias que apoyaron la invasión:
It is not enough to say with the neocons that this was a good idea executed badly. Their own ideas are partly to blame. Too many people in Washington were fixated on proving an ideological point: that America's values were universal and would be digested effortlessly by people a world away. But plonking an American army in the heart of the Arab world was always a gamble. It demanded the highest seriousness and careful planning. Messrs Bush and Rumsfeld chose instead to send less than half the needed soldiers and gave no proper thought to the aftermath.What a waste. Most Iraqis rejoiced in the toppling of Saddam. They trooped in their millions to vote. What would Iraq be like now if America had approached its perilous, monumentally controversial undertaking with humility, honesty and courage? Thanks to the almost criminal negligence of Mr Bush's administration nobody, now, will ever know.
El mismo intento de aplicar por la fuerza una idea de Pax Americana es absurda. Sólo ha servido para fortalecer a Irán y a los dictadores árabes, y dañar la causa de la democracia en Oriente Medio durante muchos años. Por eso, una hipotética estatua de Bush ha corrido el mismo destino que la de Sadam.
Posted by Iñigo at Marzo 25, 2007 05:07 PM
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"It is not enough to say with the neocons that this was a good idea executed badly."
Vaya, exactamente lo que dijo Gustavo de Aristegui y que fue acogido por la prensa como una autocrítica o incluso un acto de contricción.
Posted by: algarabía at Marzo 25, 2007 06:32 PM