Quiero compartir este sumario compilado por Bill Whittle, de lo escrito por los mainstream media :
The war is an abject and utter failure. What everyone thought would be a quick, decisive victory has turned into an embarrassing series of reversals. The enemy, -- a ragtag, badly-fed collection of hotheads and fanatics – has failed to be shocked and awed by the most magnificent military machine ever fielded. Their dogged resistance has shown us the futility of the idea that a nation of millions could ever be subjugated and administered, no matter what obscene price we are willing to pay in blood and money. The President of the United States is a buffoon, an idiot, a man barely able to speak the English language. His vice president is a little-seen, widely despised enigma and his chief military advisor a wild-eyed warmonger. Only his Secretary of State offers any hope of redemption, for he at least is a reasonable, well-educated man, a man most thought would have made a far, far better choice for Chief Executive. We must face the fact that we had no business forcing this unjust war on a people who simply want to be left alone. It has damaged our international relationships beyond any measure, and has proven to be illegal, immoral and nothing less than a monumental mistake that will take generations to rectify. We can never hope to subdue and remake an entire nation of millions. All we will do is alienate them further. So we must bring this war to an immediate end, and make a solemn promise to history that we will never launch another war of aggression and preemption again, so help us God.
La fecha : 1864. El presidente : Abraham Lincoln. La guerra : U.S. Civil War
Cuando los Chomsky, Olbermann, Moore, Galeano y compañía sean sólo una nota al pie de página de la historia, GWB será recordado como el hombre que comandó el país y lo mantuvo seguro en tiempos más que difíciles, cuando otros sólo hablaban de como congraciarse con los asesinos fanáticos. Godspeed !
Y para mañana, pongan esta versión que me encanta :
Permitime corregirte con el mayor de los respetos Mike. Pero esa genial frase no es obra de RR, sino de una de las primeras figuras políticas de esa nación. Más precisamente fue dicha por John Winthrop, gobernador de Massachusetts en el siglo XVII, y luego utilizada por RR, y JFK.
ReplyDeleteRecuerdo particularmente la fuente de esa frase al estar en el comienzo del libro "Historia de los EEUU" de Paul Johnson.
Correcto Ivan, gracias, yo la conocía en el contexto del discurso de despedida de Reagan al dejar la presidencia, y ahí Ronnie cita el origen de la frase :
ReplyDelete[...] And that's about all I have to say tonight. Except for one thing. The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still. [...]
El discurso completo, acá.
Hoy entré 1 metro a territorio americano.
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