sábado, 21 de agosto de 2021

AFEGANISTÃO | COMO MUITOS ESTAMOS INCRÉDULOS E QUEREMOS PERCEBER (2)| «You Can’t Build Others’ Nations»

 

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Na lógica deste post já temos este:AFEGANISTÃO | COMO MUITOS ESTAMOS INCRÉDULOS E QUEREMOS PERCEBER | elegendo contributos dos que consideramos válidos comecemos com uma Nota de Imprensa do PCP.Como continuamos perplexos vamos continuar a recolher «pontos de vista» que nos ajudem a compreender ... O artigo da NOEMA começa assim:

 «As Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan demonstrate beyond any doubt, you can’t build other people’s nations without the kind of “total war” and “total victory” commitment that enabled the allies to defeat Germany and Japan in World War II and shape their post-war societies. Short of that, systemic change in any society can only be made from within by those who own it.

 U.S. President Joe Biden is therefore right to stick to his lack of guns and abandon the “forever war” in Afghanistan, which has mired down American forces in that harshly mountain-and-tradition-bound country longer than either the Soviets or the British imperialists before them. And he is right to shift his attention from nation-building abroad to nation-rebuilding at home, while moving on to a strategic defense of the rules-based liberal international order as a whole. 

America is in no position to export democracy abroad when federal forces only recently had to repel an insurrection against the constitutional transfer of power in Washington, when much of the nation twists the common sense of public health in the midst of a raging pandemic into some kind of conspiracy against freedom and when social inequality, race and identity politics have so splintered the body politic that the grand modern experiment at the core of American exceptionalism — “e pluribus unum” (out of the many, one) — is at serious risk of unraveling.

 Despite the post-trauma fears that linger on two decades after 9/11, terrorism by globalized jihadists is no longer a civilizational challenge to the West. It has faded as a threat in tandem with the withdrawal of foreign forces from the regions Islamists care about — and where they live. The chance of a resurgent Al Qaeda-type terrorism is far more diminished by the absence of American troops than their presence. (...)». Continue.

 
 

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