Newsgroup: it.cultura.religioni.cristiani
Titolo: Ricostruzione in Iraq

Cosciente dell'OT, ma sperando di fare cosa gradita, segnalo un articolo di
Naomi Klein disponibile a
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6930.htm
 che consiglio
caldamente di leggere.
Dal brano traggo solo questo interessante paragrafo che descrive
perfettamente la fallimentare e perversa politica a cui si ispira anche il
nostrano leader: greed is good.
Un'altro compitino per l'ottimo maxmannino: riconfigurare il tutto in luce
cattolico-moderna, come solo tu sai fare. Senza troppa escatologia, please,
che questa mi e' particolarmente indigesta.
Bye
Hyper
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The honey theory of Iraqi reconstruction stems from the most cherished
belief of the war's ideological architects: that greed is good. Not good
just for them and their friends but good for humanity, and certainly good
for Iraqis. Greed creates profit, which creates growth, which creates jobs
and products and services and everything else anyone could possibly need or
want. The role of good government, then, is to create the optimal conditions
for corporations to pursue their bottomless greed, so that they in turn can
meet the needs of the society. The problem is that governments, even
neoconservative governments, rarely get the chance to prove their sacred
theory right: despite their enormous ideological advances, even George
Bush's Republicans are, in their own minds, perennially sabotaged by
meddling Democrats, intractable unions, and alarmist environmentalists.

theory right: 
Un'altra cosa che hanno poco valutato e' su chi potranno far
affidamento in loco:
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*** WHO ARE THE PROGRESSIVES IN IRAQ? THE LEFT, THE RIGHT, AND THE
ISLAMISTS ***
By Frank Smyth
(Editor's Note: As the debate over U.S. policy in Iraq continues, an
issue for many progressives is how to respond to the range of groups
engaged in armed resistance to the U.S. occupation as well as some
progressive groups working either in the interim government or
advancing their interests through non-violent means. Frank Smyth
explores these issues for FPIF in this excerpt, the complete version
of which is available at 
http://www.fpif.org/papers/0409progiraq.html
.)
One event in Baghdad went unreported this month, not only by the
mainstream media but also by the "alternative" press, even though it
implies that U.S. control over Iraq's political future may already be
waning. In August, the White House supported the establishment of an
Iraqi National Council comprising 100 Iraqis from various tribal,
ethnic, and religious groups in an effort to influence the composition
of an electoral oversight body. Yet this month, two large political
parties, each of which has long been viewed with suspicion by
Washington, came out ahead in the voting.
In the September balloting, the delegate from the Supreme Assembly for
the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Jawad al-Maliki, came in first with 56
votes. This is a Shiite group that Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld lambasted as a tool of Iran during the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq. Another Iraqi even less attractive to Washington, the Secretary
General of the Iraqi Communist Party (
www.iraqcp.org
), Hamid Majid
Moussa, came in second with 55 votes. Meanwhile, Rasim al-Awadi, the
delegate from the Iraqi National Accord--the group once backed by the
CIA and whose leader, Iyad Allawi, who was supported by the Bush
administration to become the Iraqi prime minister--came in third with
53 votes. Nasir A`if al-Ani--the delegate from the Iraqi Islamic
Party, a Sunni group, sympathetic to the Ba'athist-based,
anti-American resistance operating both west and north of
Baghdad--came in fourth with 48 votes.
By any count, getting only one ally elected out of four seats on this
potentially all-important electoral oversight body does not bode well
for the Bush administration. After the Iraqi National Council was
formed, but before it voted, White House spokesman Scott McClellan,
while at President Bush's family ranch in Crawford, Texas, declared:
"The selection of the council is a sign that the Iraqi people will not
allow terrorist elements to stand in the way of their democratic
future."
But what if elections in Iraq early next year lead to a government
unlike anything ever expected by the Bush administration? The
respected Arabist from the University of Michigan, Juan Cole, was
among the first to report the Iraqi National Council election results
on his blog, 
www.juancole.com
. "So," he quipped, "this list is further
evidence that the U.S. invaded Iraq to install in power a coalition of
Communists, Islamists and ex-Ba'athist nationalists. If you had said
such a thing 3 years ago you would have been laughed at."
Many American leftists seem to know little about their Iraqi
counterparts, since understanding the role of the Iraqi left requires
a nuanced approach. Unfortunately the knee-jerk, anti-imperialist
analysis of groups like International A.N.S.W.E.R. has wormed its way
into several progressive outlets. Dispatches and columns in The Nation
as well as reports and commentary on the independently syndicated
radio program "Democracy Now" have all but ignored the role of Iraqi
progressives while highlighting, if not championing, the various
factions of the Iraqi-based resistance against the U.S.-led occupation
without bothering to ask who these groups are and what they represent
for Iraqis.
U.S. activists who demonstrated against the Iraq War made an
invaluable contribution by letting the rest of the world know that
millions of Americans opposed the U.S.-led invasion. But the enemy of
one's enemy is not necessarily one's friend. To think otherwise is to
embrace an Orwellian logic that makes anti-war Americans appear not
only uninformed but also as cynical as the pro-war protagonists whom
they oppose.
(Frank Smyth is a freelance journalist who has "embedded" with leftist
guerrillas in El Salvador, Iraq, and Rwanda. He covered the 1991
uprisings against Saddam Hussein's regime, and was later captured and
held for two weeks inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. He wrote this
policy report for Foreign Policy In Focus (
www.fpif.org
). His clips
are posted at 
www.franksmyth.com
.)
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Da quanto sopra traspare che la situazione politica
 e' senza uscita.IMO.
pb

 che questa mi e' particolarmente indigesta.
amor mio, parliamo ora di metodo, non di merito.
Per questioni di metodo io non parlo mai di escatologia in politica
internazionale, bensì di convenienza in termini di denaro, di potere
relativo e di minacce alle libertà individuali (in special modo del mio
prossimo, cioè di coloro che mi stanno prossimi, a cominciare da me stesso,
che tanto amo).
Convinto che l'ingresso della teologia in politica sia pericoloso, ho deciso
che l'impegno del cattolico in politica debba essere sommamente laico ed
utilitarista.
E' probabile tu non mi comprenda, per la notevole difficoltà di comprendere
una posizione metodologica di questo tipo.
Il modo, poi, in cui questo metodo possa rendersi coerente col Vangelo farei
fatica a spiegarlo perfino a chi ne sa di politica e di fede. Quindi, non ti
offendere se non mi cimento a spiegartelo.
E' singolare ad ogni modo il fatto che tu mi accusi della cosa opposta per
cui soglio essere criticato in questo NG. Qua mi accusano di aver rinnegato
il cristianesimo sulla piramide a tredici gradoni del dio dollaro, e tu mi
accusi di idolatrare il dio dollaro per coerenza al mio fosco cristianesimo.