"The Arab world is flames," Al-Jazeera reported on 27 January, while across the region, the Western allies "are rapidly losing their influence."
The wave began with the dramatic movement in Tunisia uprising that ousted a dictator backed by the West, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators the police imposed a brutal dictator.
Observers compared the events to the collapse of the Russian dominions in 1989, but there are important differences.
A comparison with 1989 has some validity: Romania, where Washington kept his support for Nicolae Ceausescu, the most vicious dictators in Eastern Europe, until it became untenable loyalty. Then Washington welcomed his overthrow while the past was erased.
Es un patrón estándar: Marcos, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Chun Doo Hwan, Suharto y muchos otros gángsteres útiles. Puede estar en curso en el caso de Hosni Mubarak, junto con esfuerzos rutinarios para intentar de asegurarse de que el régimen sucesor no virará lejos de la trayectoria aprobada.
A common refrain among commentators is that the fear of radical Islam requires the opposition (reluctantly) to democracy and pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the wording is misleading. The general threat has always been independent. In the Arab world, the United States and its allies have supported radical Islamic regularly to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.
A common example is the Saudi Arabia, the ideological center of radical Islam (and Islamic terror.) Another in a long list Zia ul-Haq is , the most brutal of dictators in Pakistan and favorito del presidente Reagan, que realizó un programa de la islamización radical (con financiación saudita).
“La discusión tradicional propuesta dentro y fuera del mundo árabe es que no hay nada malo, todo está bajo control,” dice Marwan Muasher, anterior funcionario jordano y ahora director de investigación del Oriente Medio para la fundación Carnegie. “Con esta línea de pensamiento, las fuerzas atrincheradas sostienen que los opositores y los forasteros que piden reforma están exagerando las condiciones reales.”
Por lo tanto el público puede ser despedido. La doctrina se remonta a tiempos lejanos y se generaliza por todo el mundo, al territorio de los E.E.U.U. también. En caso de malestar, los cambios tácticos pueden ser necesarios, pero siempre con perspectiva hacia la reafirmación de control.
El movimiento vibrante de la democracia en Túnez fue dirigido contra “un estado policial, con poca libertad de expresión o asociación, y problemas serios de los derechos humanos,” gobernado por un dictador cuya familia era odiada. Éste era el dictamen del embajador Roberto Godec de los E.E.U.U. en un cable del julio de 2009 lanzado por WikiLeaks.
" America must give Assange a medal, "says a title of 'The Financial Times ' . Its main policy analyst foreign Gideon Rachman writes that "U.S. foreign policy seems Estaod principles, intelligent and pragmatic public position taken by the US-respect to any given situation is usually the private position too."
De According to this view, WikiLeaks mine to "conspiracy theorists" who are asking that Washington proclaims noble motives regularly.
Godec The cablegram to support these conclusions, at least if we look no further. If we do, as does the political analyst Stephen Zunes outside in 'Foreign Policy in Focus ' , we find that the information available Godec, Washington provided $ 12 million in military aid to Tunisia. As it happens, Tunisia was one of only five foreign beneficiaries: Israel (routine), the two Middle Eastern dictatorships Egypt and Jordan, and Colombia, which has had by far the worst record of human rights and the bulk of military aid the U.S. in the Americas.
No mention is what will the population which is easily discovered. According to surveys, the Brookings Institution in August, few Arabs agree with Washington and Western commentators that Iran is a threat: 10 percent. Instead, the Arabs look to the U.S. and Israel as the main threats (77 per cent, 88 per cent).
Arab opinion is so hostile to U.S. policies that a majority (57 percent) believe that regional security would be enhanced if Iran had nuclear weapons. However, "there is nothing wrong, everything is under control" (according to Marwan Muasher describes as prevailing fantasy). We support dictators. His subjects may be ignored, unless they break their chains, and then the policy should be adjusted.
Other releases ("leaks") also appear to support the trials enthusiastic about the nobility of Washington. In July 2009, Hugo Llorens, the U.S. ambassador to Honduras, informs Washington of an investigation of the embassy "of the legal and constitutional issues surrounding the June 28, the forced removal of President Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya."
The embassy concluded that "there is no doubt that the military, the Supreme Court and the Congress, conspired on June 28 in what was an illegal and unconstitutional coup against the executive branch." Very impressive, unless Obama proceeded to break almost all of Latin America and Europe by supporting the coup regime and disregarding subsequent atrocities.
Perhaps most remarkable revelations WikiLeaks have to do with Pakistan, reviewed by Fred Branfman analyst of foreign policy ' Truthdig. '
The cablegram shows that the U.S. Embassy is well aware that Washington's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan not only intensifies the rampant anti-Americanism but also "risks the destabilize the Pakistani state "and even raises a threat of further nightmare: that nuclear weapons could caer en las manos de terroristas islámicos.
Una vez más las revelaciones “deben crear la sensación de confor-que los funcionarios no están dormidos en el mando” (las palabras de Heilbrunn) - mientras que Washington marche de manera robusta hacia el desastre.
Por Noam Chomsky.
Chomsky es profesor emérito de lingüística y de filosofía en el Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts en Cambridge, Massachusetts.
© The New York Times Syndicate
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