La nueva guerra caliente

Son raras las veces en las que estoy de acuerdo con Tomasito Friedman, el columnista especialista en foreign affairs del NY Times. Esta vez le da en la tecla, me parece, con el tema Iran.

“Simply put,” noted Mr. Yaari, “Tehran has created a situation in which anyone who wants to attack its atomic facilities will have to take into account that this will lead to bitter fighting” on the Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi and Persian Gulf fronts. That is a sophisticated strategy of deterrence.

The Bush team, by contrast, in eight years has managed to put America in the unique position in the Middle East where it is “not liked, not feared and not respected,” writes Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast negotiator under both Republican and Democratic administrations, in his provocative new book on the peace process, titled “The Much Too Promised Land.”

“We stumbled for eight years under Bill Clinton over how to make peace in the Middle East, and then we stumbled for eight years under George Bush over how to make war there,” said Mr. Miller, and the result is “an America that is trapped in a region which it cannot fix and it cannot abandon.”

Estados Unidos le erró la puntería, desde mi punto de vista. Y no soy de los que piensan que el gobierno inventó documentos para ir a Irak. Soy de los que piensan que el peor crimen que cometimos fue el ser incompetentes. Ahora parece demasiado tarde para ir a Irán. Ninguno de los tres candidatos tiene uñas de guitarrero.

Me queda un sola esperanza: las bombas de mi país favorito. Ese que la semana pasada celebró sus sesenta pirulos.