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1972
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venerdì, febbraio 27, 2004
C’è una guerra là fuori. Guardando alle elezioni di novembre per Mark Steyn c’è solo una cosa che conta: la lotta contro il terrorismo. Tutte le altre sono questioni secondarie.
Il titolare di questo blog è totalmente d’accordo. L’affondo di Steyn nei confronti di chi sembra non capirlo (richiede venti secondi per la registrazione): But in 2004 America is divided between those who want to fight the war and those who want to fight the guy who invented the war as a means of distracting us from the tax cuts for his cronies and his plan to destroy the environment. If Gore or Kerry had been in the White House on September 11, I’m certain the Taleban would still be in power, and Afghanistan would still be a playground of terror camps. Oh, to be sure, there’d have been sanctions and Security Council resolutions and some arrests of associates in the US, but the broad context of 9/11 would have been different: it would have been a ‘tragedy’, not an act of war; mounds of teddy bears, not regime change. For that critical, liberating distinction we have to thank Don Rumsfeld and George W. Bush. According to Rowan Scarborough’s new book Rumsfeld’s War, at one o’clock that afternoon, as the Pentagon still burned and after he’d helped with the injured, the Defence Secretary told the President, ‘This is not a criminal action. This is war.’ November’s election is a referendum on Rumsfeld’s judgment that day. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said that he feared all he’d done was wake a sleeping giant. But it’s been two years now. If you figure it’s time the sleeping giant resumed his slumbers, Kerry’s your man. |
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A Luisa.   
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