2006/10/06
Para além dos "Taliban"
Um dos problemas dos neo-conservadores é conseguirem reduzir a zero qualquer tipo de reflexão por parte de todos, isto é, mesmo os não neo-conservadores. No Afeganistão é tudo Taliban, isto é, quem morre, é Taliban por definição. Está resolvido o problema moral. A missão da NATO é matar tantos quantos puder. Quem morrer, é porque é Taliban. Por mim, a NATO deixou de ter qualquer validade (cruzes credo, como se pode sobreviver sem a NATO? como pode a Suiça sobreviver?). Juntando o caso Sérvia com o Afeganistão e a estratégia de rodear a Rússia, a NATO passou a ser um passivo-agressivo compulsivo, mais uma vitória neo-conservadora. Por mim, que tenho uma costela conservadora, prefiro reter apenas a nossa aliança com o Reino Unido [os americanos não sabem onde fica Portugal], a ser evocada apenas no limite dos interesses. Deixem os outros salvar o mundo. Provávelmente vão acabar a destrui-lo.
Bombing Pakistan Back to the Stone Age by Eric Margolis "...Tribal politics lie at the heart of their dispute. The 30 million Pashtuns (or Pathans), the world’s largest tribal society, are divided between Afghanistan and Pakistan by an artificial border, the Durand Line, drawn by divide-and-conquer British imperialists.
Pashtuns account for 50–60% of Afghanistan’s 30 million people. Taliban is an organic part of the Pashtun people. The western powers and their figurehead ruler, President Karzai, are not just fighting “Taliban terrorists,” but a coalition of Pushtun tribes and other allied nationalist movements. In effect, most of the Pashtun people.
The other half of the divided Pashtuns live just across the Durand Line in Pakistan, comprising 15–20% of its population. Pashtuns occupy many senior posts in Pakistan’s military and intelligence services. Pashtuns, including anti-western resistance fighters, never accepted and simply ignore the artificial border bifurcating their tribal homeland.
Washington keeps demanding Musharraf crack down on Pakistan’s pro-Taliban Pashtuns. But Washington fails to understand that too much pressure on these fierce warriors could quickly ignite a major historic threat to Pakistan’s national integrity: a Pashtun independence movement seeking to join the Pashtun of Afghanistan and Pakistan in a new state, Pashtunistan.
Growing tribal unrest in Pakistan’s strategic province of Baluchistan, where support of Taliban runs high, further threatens to destabilize the fragile nation.
President Musharraf has bent over so far backwards to comply with Washington’s highly unpopular demands that he has deeply angered his people, who increasingly call him a tool of the west. Karzai is seen the same way by many Afghans. Yet US (and now Canadian) policy depends on the survival of these two colorful but increasingly "isolated leaders." Bombing Pakistan Back to the Stone Age by Eric Margolis
Bombing Pakistan Back to the Stone Age by Eric Margolis "...Tribal politics lie at the heart of their dispute. The 30 million Pashtuns (or Pathans), the world’s largest tribal society, are divided between Afghanistan and Pakistan by an artificial border, the Durand Line, drawn by divide-and-conquer British imperialists.
Pashtuns account for 50–60% of Afghanistan’s 30 million people. Taliban is an organic part of the Pashtun people. The western powers and their figurehead ruler, President Karzai, are not just fighting “Taliban terrorists,” but a coalition of Pushtun tribes and other allied nationalist movements. In effect, most of the Pashtun people.
The other half of the divided Pashtuns live just across the Durand Line in Pakistan, comprising 15–20% of its population. Pashtuns occupy many senior posts in Pakistan’s military and intelligence services. Pashtuns, including anti-western resistance fighters, never accepted and simply ignore the artificial border bifurcating their tribal homeland.
Washington keeps demanding Musharraf crack down on Pakistan’s pro-Taliban Pashtuns. But Washington fails to understand that too much pressure on these fierce warriors could quickly ignite a major historic threat to Pakistan’s national integrity: a Pashtun independence movement seeking to join the Pashtun of Afghanistan and Pakistan in a new state, Pashtunistan.
Growing tribal unrest in Pakistan’s strategic province of Baluchistan, where support of Taliban runs high, further threatens to destabilize the fragile nation.
President Musharraf has bent over so far backwards to comply with Washington’s highly unpopular demands that he has deeply angered his people, who increasingly call him a tool of the west. Karzai is seen the same way by many Afghans. Yet US (and now Canadian) policy depends on the survival of these two colorful but increasingly "isolated leaders." Bombing Pakistan Back to the Stone Age by Eric Margolis
// posted by CN @ 11:42 PM 
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Há frases que dizem muito sobre quem as profere.
Ontem assisti à entrevista com Bob Woodward nos 60 Minutos e, para além, de mais uma vez ficar com a sensação de quem governa realmente os Estados Unidos é o Dick Cheney e amigos, houve uma frase de Bush que me chamou a atenção.
Quando Woodward lhe perguntou como achava que a História iria julgar a sua decisão de iniciar a guerra no Iraque, Bush, encolhendo os ombros, diz "Já vamos estar mortos".
So, who cares?
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Ontem assisti à entrevista com Bob Woodward nos 60 Minutos e, para além, de mais uma vez ficar com a sensação de quem governa realmente os Estados Unidos é o Dick Cheney e amigos, houve uma frase de Bush que me chamou a atenção.
Quando Woodward lhe perguntou como achava que a História iria julgar a sua decisão de iniciar a guerra no Iraque, Bush, encolhendo os ombros, diz "Já vamos estar mortos".
So, who cares?
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