BRAZIL'S OVERVIEW CORNER: A STEP THAT WAS MISSING
Autor: Cunha e Silva Filho | Publicado: 2017-04-10T12:33:00-07:00

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[The Portuguese translation of this article is found at the end of&nbsp; the English text}



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;By&nbsp;&nbsp; Cunha e Silva Filho





&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I cannot see eye to eye with&nbsp; Donald&nbsp;
Trump’s way of&nbsp; ruling the United
States, especially&nbsp;&nbsp; due to&nbsp; some&nbsp;
actions&nbsp; of his towards&nbsp; solving&nbsp;
internal&nbsp; problems&nbsp;&nbsp; of his&nbsp;
country, among others the question&nbsp;
of the&nbsp; immigrants,&nbsp; the&nbsp;
building&nbsp; of a great wall&nbsp; separating&nbsp;
the States&nbsp; from&nbsp; Mexico and his&nbsp; unpredictable&nbsp;
and too exaggerated&nbsp; and boisterous&nbsp; declarations&nbsp;
about&nbsp; a lot&nbsp; of&nbsp;
issues not&nbsp; adequately dealt
with&nbsp; seriousness,&nbsp; circumstance&nbsp;
&nbsp;which has led some people&nbsp; to even call him a clown. Not to speak &nbsp;about&nbsp; a
good many&nbsp; lies (not white lies)&nbsp; which have been attributed to him or have
been&nbsp; declared by him during&nbsp; his&nbsp; political
campaign for the&nbsp; presidency of the United States. 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course,&nbsp; his focus&nbsp;
on concentrating all his&nbsp;
efforts&nbsp;&nbsp; to protect&nbsp;&nbsp; the interests&nbsp; of Americans, thus giving&nbsp; an explicit answer to thousands of&nbsp; immigrants who live in the&nbsp; States &nbsp;as illegal&nbsp;
immigrants&nbsp; sounds a little
bit&nbsp; anachronistic &nbsp;nationalistic. Such attitude on his part&nbsp; will only&nbsp;
bring about&nbsp; discontentment&nbsp; in&nbsp;
society as a whole and a poor approval&nbsp;
of&nbsp; his&nbsp; administration .He will have to give up&nbsp; some of&nbsp;&nbsp;
his&nbsp;&nbsp; thoughtless&nbsp; decisions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
that will&nbsp; prove&nbsp; wrong and hurried. 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On the&nbsp;
other hand,&nbsp;&nbsp; one has to&nbsp; understand&nbsp;
that some&nbsp; readjustments&nbsp; should be necessary&nbsp; so as to&nbsp;&nbsp;
correct&nbsp; some past&nbsp; mistakes as far as&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; immigrants&nbsp;
issue&nbsp; is concerned,&nbsp; mainly&nbsp;
nowadays&nbsp; when&nbsp; the world&nbsp;
faces a tremendous&nbsp; wave of&nbsp; terrorism attacks&nbsp; that are being&nbsp;&nbsp; spreading the world over.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This difficult&nbsp; moment&nbsp;
in the&nbsp; world&nbsp; history&nbsp;
calls for&nbsp; control measures&nbsp; that may&nbsp;
somehow&nbsp; reduce&nbsp; foreign&nbsp;&nbsp;
threats from&nbsp; the Islamic State
and&nbsp; his&nbsp;&nbsp;
murderous&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp; coward actions against&nbsp; innocents everywhere. No truce should be given
– we should emphasize - to treacherous deeds practiced by&nbsp; bloodshed&nbsp;
and fanatic assassins.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Putting&nbsp;
aside&nbsp; Trump’s errors and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a lot&nbsp;
of &nbsp;post- truths&nbsp; that have their&nbsp; origins&nbsp;
in &nbsp;&nbsp;some of&nbsp; the&nbsp;
president’s&nbsp; public declarations, one
cannot&nbsp; deny&nbsp; that, in the&nbsp;
&nbsp;conflict of Syria,&nbsp; he did well in&nbsp; bombarding&nbsp;
some target points of&nbsp; &nbsp;a region to &nbsp;clearly say that he is not&nbsp; kidding with this civil war that seems to be
dragging on&nbsp; for ever.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The dictator Bashar al-Assad has been &nbsp;held responsible for the &nbsp;killings of &nbsp;civilians &nbsp;and&nbsp;
opponents&nbsp; alike for six years.
This is a long-term&nbsp; conflict that&nbsp; ought to be over immediately. To do so, it is
mandatory&nbsp; that a coalition of&nbsp;&nbsp; relevant&nbsp;
democratic&nbsp;&nbsp; nations&nbsp; be entrusted with the task of giving &nbsp;solution to this&nbsp; thorny&nbsp;
problem. A cease-fire is &nbsp;as&nbsp; pressing as possible; it is &nbsp;a must. The Syrian&nbsp; citizens &nbsp;&nbsp;peace depends largely &nbsp;&nbsp;on the fulfillment of this challenging &nbsp;&nbsp;mission.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It is not a matter of&nbsp; interfering &nbsp;with the so-called sovereignty of&nbsp; a country, as&nbsp;
some analysts think, chiefly those who see the United States
as invaders of countries. It&nbsp; is obvious
that the American&nbsp; invasions in some
countries&nbsp;&nbsp; are to be&nbsp; harshly&nbsp;
and rightly criticized, as the Iraq invasion&nbsp; is a good example of a hurried&nbsp; and unnecessary&nbsp; invasion.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However,&nbsp;
in the Syrian&nbsp; civil war all
possible&nbsp; negotiations&nbsp; have been&nbsp;
made together with the&nbsp; support
of&nbsp; Security&nbsp; Council of the United Nations &nbsp;and other&nbsp;
international peace&nbsp;
institutions&nbsp; but, so far,&nbsp; with no concrete&nbsp; results&nbsp;
that&nbsp; might give a sign of
hope&nbsp; to achieve peace. Assad cannot think
he is the owner of&nbsp; a country&nbsp; and have his&nbsp;
people&nbsp; chained to his&nbsp; personal&nbsp;
will and authoritarian&nbsp; determinations.


&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Syria does belong to their&nbsp; people, not to&nbsp; an autocracy where democratic principles &nbsp;&nbsp;are not taken into account Therefore,&nbsp; all efforts of important&nbsp; world democracies should be made to overthrow
the dictator as son as possible. There is no time for&nbsp; putting off decisions from&nbsp; democratic&nbsp;
nations.&nbsp; This anomalous &nbsp;&nbsp;situation &nbsp;in Syria cannot&nbsp; last for ever, otherwise we will be &nbsp;allowing&nbsp;
a whole population&nbsp; still&nbsp; living in agony to be &nbsp;&nbsp;wiped
out from&nbsp;&nbsp; the map. In allowing the worst
to happen, we will be acting&nbsp; as indirect
&nbsp;accomplices of a genocide.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This &nbsp;recent&nbsp; criminal&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;use
of&nbsp; sarin by Syria government&nbsp; was the third one thrown at unprotected&nbsp;&nbsp; populations&nbsp;
made up&nbsp; of civilians,
especially&nbsp; innocent children It is a
proof of how&nbsp; savage&nbsp; and unmerciful&nbsp;&nbsp; a government can behave towards&nbsp; human beings. To be exact, the use of&nbsp; chemical&nbsp;
weapon, sarin,&nbsp; happened&nbsp; in Goutha, in 2013, killing 1,400 people and,
in 2014, Syrian&nbsp; troops used the chlorine
gas in military raids.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The use of chemical&nbsp; weapons&nbsp;
is forbidden&nbsp; during&nbsp;&nbsp; wars, but even so,&nbsp; disregarding all&nbsp; international&nbsp;
war&nbsp; conventions, &nbsp;as I have&nbsp;
referred to lines above, it was recently&nbsp;
employed. 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nevertheless, the dictator, though having
become &nbsp;a member&nbsp; of the OPCW (acronym for Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), in practice never&nbsp; respected&nbsp;
its&nbsp; rules.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I cannot forget the horror of a scene seen
&nbsp;&nbsp;on TV where a young father desperately&nbsp;&nbsp; cried out&nbsp;
on seeing &nbsp;his&nbsp; two children dead &nbsp;in his arms. The little children were about to
be buried in the improvised hole dug in the&nbsp;
ground.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is it&nbsp;
possible&nbsp; that&nbsp; a man,&nbsp;
even&nbsp; in the&nbsp; condition of&nbsp;
a dictator, does&nbsp; not feel pity on
&nbsp;the little ones? What world, readers, do
we still&nbsp; live&nbsp;&nbsp; in that allows&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; these&nbsp;
atrocities against forlorn&nbsp;&nbsp;
children as in Syria
and other&nbsp;&nbsp; regions of&nbsp; the Earth? Did we not&nbsp; suffer&nbsp;
enough with the crimes&nbsp; in
the&nbsp; First and Second&nbsp; World wars? Is it not&nbsp; high&nbsp;
time&nbsp; we halted these&nbsp;&nbsp; abominable&nbsp;&nbsp;
crimes? What are we waiting for&nbsp;&nbsp; to
&nbsp;&nbsp;do&nbsp;
our part&nbsp;&nbsp; in putting &nbsp;an end to&nbsp;
this&nbsp; barbarous&nbsp; groups of terrorists”? 

&nbsp;&nbsp; I want to make one more &nbsp;&nbsp;comment. In the&nbsp;&nbsp; conflict of&nbsp;
Syria&nbsp; we clearly have the cards on the table.
We&nbsp; know&nbsp;
Russia&nbsp; is in favor of&nbsp; Syria and, what&nbsp; is more,&nbsp;
is giving&nbsp; all&nbsp; military support to the&nbsp; dictator. So does Iran. So would certainly do China, and probably would do so &nbsp;&nbsp;North&nbsp; Korea.
Being this the case,&nbsp; it is&nbsp; easy&nbsp;
to&nbsp; understand that if&nbsp; Russia&nbsp;
is defending&nbsp; Syria, in my&nbsp; view, &nbsp;it is not for&nbsp;
ideological&nbsp; reasons only. 

&nbsp;&nbsp; The
same is true for the other three mentioned countries. Russia&nbsp; is
on behalf&nbsp; of Syria&nbsp; for&nbsp;
other&nbsp; interests: geopolitical,&nbsp; economical and hegemonic. Iran&nbsp; for&nbsp;&nbsp;
military&nbsp; powers&nbsp; and perhaps also&nbsp; for&nbsp;&nbsp;
political and&nbsp; religious&nbsp; principles. Iran&nbsp; has for a long time being a declared &nbsp;enemy of the United States.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then again,&nbsp;&nbsp; what this&nbsp;
chessboard&nbsp; points out &nbsp;is the fact that&nbsp; if&nbsp; all
these prevailing&nbsp; interests&nbsp; go on,&nbsp;
the world will be&nbsp; on the&nbsp;&nbsp; verge of&nbsp;
committing&nbsp; madness&nbsp; for a third&nbsp;
time and the&nbsp; consequences of it
are&nbsp; unforeseen.&nbsp; 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I would recommend the world leaders that, in
case they have not read &nbsp;the thoughtful warnings&nbsp; of a great&nbsp;
man, mathematician and&nbsp;
philosopher,&nbsp; Bertrand&nbsp; Russell (1872-1970) may &nbsp;&nbsp;they do so just following Russells’s words
once &nbsp;proclaimed (I’m not&nbsp; quoting&nbsp;
his words ipsis verbis)):
“There two ways to follow in another&nbsp;
world conflict: peace&nbsp; or&nbsp; full destruction.” 

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Cunha e&nbsp; Silva Filho





&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Não&nbsp; compartilho com a &nbsp;maneira&nbsp;
pela qual&nbsp; Donald Trump governa os
Estados Unidos, sobretudo em razão&nbsp; de
algumas&nbsp; de suas ações voltadas para a solução
de problemas internos do&nbsp; seu país, como,
entre outras,&nbsp; a questão &nbsp;dos imigrantes,&nbsp; da construção de um grande muro separando os
Estados Unidos do México assim como&nbsp; suas
afirmações&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; exageradas, imprevisíveis e
fanfarronas acerca de um grande número de assuntos não adequadamente&nbsp; tratados por ele com maior&nbsp;&nbsp; seriedade, fato que &nbsp;levou muita gente &nbsp;a chamá-lo até de palhaço.&nbsp; E aqui não estou&nbsp; falando das muitas&nbsp; mentiras (não as mentirinhas inócuas)&nbsp; a ele atribuídas ou por ele
mesmo&nbsp; declaradas durante sua campanha&nbsp; à presidência dos Estados Unidos. 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Decerto, ao concentrar&nbsp; sua atenção nos esforços em proteger os&nbsp; interesses dos americanos, dando, assim,&nbsp; um recado aos&nbsp;
milhares de imigrantes que vivem nos Estados Unidos ilegalmente, seu
discurso soa anacrônico e nacionalista. Esta atitude dele&nbsp; só&nbsp;
colherá&nbsp;&nbsp; descontentamento no seio
da sociedade&nbsp; americana.&nbsp; Tal atitude de sua parte só lhe trará&nbsp; descontentamento&nbsp; e&nbsp;
desaprovação de sua administração pela sociedade.&nbsp; Ele terá que desistir de algumas&nbsp;&nbsp; atitudes&nbsp;
irrefletidas&nbsp;&nbsp; que
demonstrarão&nbsp;&nbsp; serem erradas&nbsp; e apressadas.&nbsp;


&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Por
outro lado,&nbsp; tem-se que compreender que
seriam necessários alguns&nbsp; reajustes a
fim de corrigir erros&nbsp; passados no que
concerne à questão dos imigrantes, sobretudo atualmente quando o mundo enfrenta
uma tremenda onda de ataques terroristas que se&nbsp;
espalham no mundo&nbsp; inteiro.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Este momento difícil da história mundial
exige rígidas medidas&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; controle que de
alguma forma&nbsp; reduzam ameaças
estrangeiras conduzidas&nbsp; pelo&nbsp; Estado Islâmico e suas ações criminosas&nbsp; e pusilânimes contra inocentes em&nbsp; qualquer parte. Nenhuma&nbsp; trégua deveria ser&nbsp; concedida – devemos enfatizar -&nbsp; a ações traiçoeiras&nbsp; de assassinos fanáticos&nbsp; e sanguinários.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esquecendo por&nbsp; enquanto os erros de Trump e muitas&nbsp; pós-verdades que se originaram de
algumas&nbsp; declarações públicas&nbsp; do presidente,&nbsp; não se pode negar que,&nbsp; no conflito da Síria,&nbsp; ele agiu bem ao bombardear&nbsp; alguns&nbsp;
alvos de um&nbsp; região no sentido
de&nbsp; diretamente&nbsp; afirmar que não está aí para brincadeiras no
caso dessa&nbsp; guerra civil que parece não
ater fim. O ditador Bashar al-Assad há seis anos&nbsp;&nbsp; tem sido o responsável pela mortes de civis
e de adversários indistintamente. Esse é um &nbsp;conflito antigo&nbsp; &nbsp;que precisa
ser de imediato&nbsp; solucionado. Para&nbsp; fazê-lo&nbsp;
é imperativo&nbsp; que&nbsp; um&nbsp;
coalizão internacional seja&nbsp;
encarregada da solução desse&nbsp;
espinhoso&nbsp; problema.&nbsp; Um cessar-fogo é tão urgente&nbsp; obrigatório. A paz do cidadão&nbsp; sírio depende amplamente da concretização
dessa tarefa&nbsp; desafiadora.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Não se trata de interferência na chamada
soberania nacional, como&nbsp; alguns&nbsp; analistas pensam, sobretudo aqueles&nbsp; que veem o Estados Unidos com&nbsp; invasores&nbsp;&nbsp;
de países. È óbvio que&nbsp; certas
invasões Americanas em alguns países&nbsp;
devem ser severa e justamente&nbsp;&nbsp;
censuradas, como foi&nbsp; o exemplo da
invasão do Iraque, feita precipitadamente e sem necessidade. 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No entanto, na guerra civil síria se
fizeram&nbsp; toas as negociações&nbsp; possíveis juntamente com o apoio&nbsp; do Conselho de Segurança&nbsp; das nações Unidas e outras instituições
internacionais da paz. Contudo,&nbsp; até o
presente, nenhum&nbsp;&nbsp; resultado
concreto&nbsp; poderia apontar para um&nbsp; sinal de esperança de paz. Assad não
pode&nbsp; pensar que seja proprietário de seu
país e ainda manter&nbsp; seu povo&nbsp; manietado pelas suas&nbsp; determinações pessoais e autoritárias.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Síria pertence, sim, &nbsp;ao seu povo, não a uma autocracia, na qual não
se levam em consideração princípios democráticos.Portanto, todos os
esforços&nbsp; de importantes&nbsp; democracias deveriam ser feitos n o sentido
de&nbsp; apear do poder o ditador. Não há mais
tempo para adiamentos de decisões dos países&nbsp;
democráticos. Essa situação anômala não pode durar&nbsp; para sempre, do contrario estaremos&nbsp; permitindo que uma&nbsp; população inteira&nbsp; ali ainda vivendo em aflição seja&nbsp; apagada do mapa. Ao permitir que&nbsp; o pior&nbsp;
possa vir, estaremos&nbsp; agindo
como&nbsp; cúmplices indiretos de um
genocídio.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; O recente emprego do sarin (pela
terceira&nbsp; vez) agora usado em bombardeios
pelo governo sírio sobre&nbsp; populações
indefesas compostas de civis, especialmente crianças é uma prova de quão
selvagem e&nbsp; inclemente se mostra um
governo com respeito aos seres humanos. Para ser preciso, o uso desta arma
química ocorreu em&nbsp; Goutha, em 2013,
ceifando 1.400 pessoas e, em 2014, tropas sírias utilizaram&nbsp; cloro com gás em&nbsp; excursões militares.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; O emprego de armas químicas é proibido
durante guerras, mas, mesmo assim,&nbsp; desconsiderando
todas as convenções internacionais de guerra, foi recentemente usado, conforme
me referi acima. No entanto, o ditador, posto tenha se tornado um membro da
OPCU ( acrônimo da&nbsp;&nbsp; Organização&nbsp; para a Proibição de Armas Químicas), na
prática,&nbsp; nunca &nbsp;respeitou seus regulamentos.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Não posso esquecer&nbsp; a cena de horror ao ver na TV um jovem pai
desesperadamente gritar pelas suas&nbsp; duas
criancinhas mortas nos seus braços.As criancinhas estavam&nbsp; prestes a serem&nbsp; enterradas num buraco cavado&nbsp; no chão. &nbsp;De repente vêm-me à mente algumas&nbsp; perguntas: È possível que um homem, mesmo na
condição de ditador, não sinta piedade destas criancinhas? Em que mundo,
leitores, ainda&nbsp;&nbsp; vivemos que permite
estas atrocidades contra crianças&nbsp;
indefesas como na Síria e em outras regiões da Terra? Não basta o que
sofremos com os crimes&nbsp; nas duas
Guerras&nbsp; Mundiais? &nbsp;Já está n a hora de pararmos com estes
crimes&nbsp; abomináveis. O que estamos
esperando para fazer a nossa parte &nbsp;a fim
de pôr um ponto final a estas ditaduras&nbsp;
e a grupos de terroristas? 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Desejo fazer mais um comentário. No
conflito da Síria as cartas claramente estão na mesa. Sabemos que a Rússia é
pr—Síria e, o que é mais,&nbsp; está dando
todo&nbsp; apoio militar ao ditador. Da mesma
forma o Irã. Da&nbsp; mesma forma certamente a
China, e provavelmente a Coréia do norte, Sendo assim,&nbsp; é fácil&nbsp;
entender que se a Rússia defende a Síria, na minha visão,&nbsp; não é por apenas razões ideológicas.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; O mesmo&nbsp;
diria&nbsp; para os outros três
mencionados países. A Rússia apoia a Síria or outros interesses: geopolíticos,
econômicos&nbsp; e hegemônicos. O Irã por
poderes&nbsp; militares e talvez por&nbsp;&nbsp; princípios religiosos, Este país há muito é
tido como&nbsp; inimigo dos Estados Unidos. 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Por outro lado,&nbsp; o que &nbsp;este tabuleiro de&nbsp; xadrez sinaliza é o fato de que , se&nbsp; todos estes&nbsp;
interesses&nbsp; prevalentes persistirem,&nbsp; o mundo estará à beira de&nbsp; cometer uma loucura. Por uma terceira vez e
com consequências imprevisíveis.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minha recomendação dirigir-se-ia aos
líderes mundiais que, na hipótese de não terem&nbsp;
lido as sábias&nbsp; advertências do
grande homem, matemático e filósofo Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), que possam
fazê-lo. Não estou citando-o ipsis verbis:
“ existem dois caminhos caso&nbsp; haja um
outro&nbsp; conflito mundial:&nbsp; paz&nbsp; ou
destruição completa.”