Newsgroup: it.cultura.militare
Titolo: negazionismo yankee sull'Iraq

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cmoore.php?articleid=6808
July 30, 2005
A Costly Education for America
Watching neocons spin the collapse of "the Bush doctrine"
by Chris Moore
In a desperate 11th-hour bid to save face and salvage credibility amid
the violent collapse of their predictions of a "cakewalk" victory over
Iraq, neoconservative opinionmakers appear to be preparing to spin
America's likely troop drawdown as just another stage in the
fulfillment of their larger plans for the region.
"In Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere in the Arab world, the forces
of democratic liberalization have emerged on the political stage in a
way that was unimaginable just two years ago," Washington Post
syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, perhaps the most widely read
neocon pundit, recently wrote on The Wall Street Journal editorial
page.
"They have been energized and emboldened by the Iraqi example and by
American resolve."
Krauthammer's determined ignorance of an Iraq on the cusp of civil war
follows the declaration by Karl Zinsmeister, the editor-in-chief of
the neoconservative The American Enterprise magazine, that "the war is
over, and we won."
"What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to
make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of
periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as
warfare is over," Zinsmeister wrote in June.
"Contrary to the impression given by most newspaper headlines, the
United States has won the day in Iraq."
Backing their claims of victory with few relevant facts, Zinsmeister,
Krauthammer, and other neoconservative pundits appear to be attempting
to use their platforms to counter reporting that indicates the
situation in Iraq is deteriorating for the American occupiers.
One such article published July 27 by United Press International was
titled "U.S. Plans Iraq Troop Cuts as Revolt Rages."
"The struggle against the Iraq insurgency passed a crucial tipping
point Wednesday with the current prime minister calling for major U.S.
troop withdrawals and the U.S. ground commander there acknowledging
they will probably come next year. The commander, however, made clear
he did not expect the insurgency to have dropped by then significantly
below its current level," the report said.
"In Washington, well-placed military sources told UPI that 'as many
as' '20,000 or 30,000' U.S. troops might be withdrawn from Iraq next
year. That would bring the current force levels of around 140,000 --
which many U.S. military officers privately, and most
counterinsurgency experts publicly agree are already far too low to
deal with the insurgency -- down to only 120,000 or 110,000 troops."
There are also the reports, given more coverage in the mainstream
media after the London bombings, that rather than diminishing the
threat of terrorism, the invasion and occupation of Iraq have actually
increased the West's vulnerability.
"We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who
we are or what we believe in or how we live," Michael Scheuer, a
retired CIA Middle Eastern specialist and author of Imperial Hubris:
Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror, recently told CNN.
An American drawdown from Iraq under these circumstances would be seen
in the United States and around the world as a major blow to the
neoconservative school of foreign policy, which Krauthammer defines as
"an unashamed assertion and deployment of American power, a resort to
unilateralism when necessary, and a willingness to preempt threats
before they emerge."
Which is why, in order to minimize the damage to their future
ambitions for American-underwritten or -initiated military action in
the Middle East, and to preserve the image of "the Bush doctrine"
(which Krauthammer says is really "a synonym for neoconservative
foreign policy"), the neocons are furiously spinning their way to
victory in Iraq -- but not necessarily out of the neighborhood.
"There are too many entrenched dictatorships and kleptocracies in the
region to declare anything won," says Krauthammer, who is now pushing
for "relentless and ruthless" American actions against Syria.
"What we can declare, with certainty, is the falsity of those
confident assurances before the Iraq war, during the Iraq war, and
after the Iraq war that this project was inevitably doomed to failure
because we do not know how to 'do' democracy, and they do not know how
to receive it."
Tough talk that doesn't square with their new (and probably wise)
plans to cut and run.
But if Iraq ends up in civil war, or as a Shi'ite dictatorship with
Iran as the ultimate beneficiary of America's neocon engineered
project (another increasingly likely scenario), all the spinning in
the world won't be able to sell Iraq as a victory for "democracy" --
or to hide the failure of neoconservative foreign policy.
At nearly 2,000 American lives and $350 billion so far spent, learning
that the neocons are terrible at making foreign policy assessments and
dangerous when put into positions of authority is proving to be a
costly American education.
The additional realization that they are also dishonest historians who
play fast and loose with the facts may be one of the few benefits of
the expense.
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 Watching neocons spin the collapse of "the Bush doctrine"
Mi pare un pamphlet di scarsa qualità.
Se proprio devi continuare con i copia-incolla, non hai di meglio Sergio?
-- 
Carlo "Jurassic Park"
 

 Mi pare un pamphlet di scarsa qualità.
ah si? il perche' pero' non lo dici, ciccio. Il che fa pensare che non
sapevi che dire oltre a fare l'intervento assai scadente che hai fatto.
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> ah si? il perche' pero' non lo dici, ciccio.
Il perché mi pareva ovvio, il tono isterico di quell'articolo è evidente.
Oltretutto finisce col chiedere quattrini ("Donate $", se ti è sfuggito).
 > Il che fa pensare che non sapevi che dire oltre a fare l'intervento assai 
scadente che hai fatto.
Sempre meglio dei tuoi quotidiani copia-incolla propagandistici.
Sei noioso.
Carlo "Jurassic Park"

 Sei noioso.
ti obbliga il dottore a leggermi? perche' se non ti obbliga non sei
proprio tanto normale eh...
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 proprio tanto normale eh...
Visto che scrivi qui, evidentemente vuoi essere letto.
Altrimenti sei tu che non sei proprio tanto normale, eh....
Carlo "Jurassic Park"

 Visto che scrivi qui, evidentemente vuoi essere letto.
si ma non ti forzo a farlo se mi trovi noioso. ci arrivi da solo vero?
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 ci arrivi da solo vero?
Ma non mi dire... chi ci avrebbe mai pensato? fortuna che ci sei te!
Carlo "Jurassic Park"

 Ma non mi dire... chi ci avrebbe mai pensato? fortuna che ci sei te!
guarda che non posso farti da assistente sociale a tempo pieno...
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