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Titolo: Usa:una tigre di carta ?

http://www.vor.ru/English/Urgent_Issues/program.phtml?act=375
un commento di fine anno dell emittente di Stato ex sovietica riguardo
agli usa
LONDON TIMES: “US MILITARY MIGHT IS A MYTH”
 
  By Yuri Reshetnikov
    As the year is drawing to a close, it is common to take stock of the
outgoing year and compare it to the year before. Has much changed in the
world over the past year and what are some of those changes. The London
Times believes that the truly historic discovery of the outgoing year is
that American military might is a myth. 
    A year can be a short time in politics, particularly if you compare
the stories dominating the media this week with those a year ago. 
    Then, as now, the paper writes, everybody was deriding Tony Blair's
lame-duck status and wondering who would replace him. Then, as now, Europe
was perceived to be drifting into historical oblivion. Then, as now,
gallows humor about the frightening incompetence of the Bush
administration, especially, in Iraq, was fashionable.
    And yet, historians are unlikely to remember 2005 as an interesting or
pivotal year. And that despite the general election and first jihadist
attack in Britain, despite the spectacular defeat of the EU constitution,
despite the continuing Iraqi bloodshed and the doubling of oil prices. In
general, the whole of this decade has been one of the least eventful on
record. 
    And yet the world changed sensationally and irreversibly on September
11, 2001. Afghanistan and Iraq have been invaded and terrorists have
claimed thousands of lives in Iraq, Russia, Indonesia, Israel, Palestine,
but also in Britain and Spain. Of course, even one atrocity is one too
many, but then four years have passed since President Bush declared his
War on Terror. And compare what has happened in the four years since 9/11
with the period that followed America's previous declaration of war. In
the four years after 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor,
Western Europe and Asia were liberated, Hitler died in his bunker, the two
most brutally efficient armies the world had ever seen were utterly
defeated and the atom bomb was invented from scratch and dropped on Japan.
The Times reaches a conclusion that in comparison with our parents'
generation, we surely live in a remarkably stable and safe world.
    According to the Times, the biggest loser of 2005 has turned out to be
the previous year's most undeserving winner - Mr. Bush. Largely because of
the sheer astonishing incompetence of the US occupation of Iraq, confirmed
by an even greater incompetence displayed after Hurricane Katrina, Mr.
Bush incomprehensible popularity and mysterious power over American voters
have vanished in a puff of smoke.
    After 9/11, and especially after the easy invasions of Afghanistan and
Iraq, America has been widely believed to dominate the world because of
its unchallengeable military power. But this year's events in Iraq and
Washington have shown this assessment to be simply wrong. America's
military power, at least in the hands of Mr. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, has
turned out to be, as in Vietnam, a paper tiger. Meanwhile, the saying that
"the business of America is business" has never been more true. The hard
military power beloved of braggart neoconservatives turns out to be
largely an illusion - and one that America cannot sustain on its own. This
paradox, the Times concludes, is perhaps the most interesting lesson of
2005. 
12/27/2005
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Rotfl.
Ma cosa gli hanno messo nel latte a Massimino?
Tb
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Io ci starei attento con la carta.
Lascia certi tagli, peggio dei coltelli.
Se poi ti cade addosso, ti può far male.
Mirco

Mirco Romanato wrote:
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non la carta da giornale... Ossia quella che strombazza la potenza militare
usa.

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Quella fa parecchio male, se ti cade addosso la mazzetta di un giornalaio.
Mirco