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venerdì, marzo 19, 2004
Altri scritti contro la resa ai fascisti. Mark Steyn
At the end of last week, American friends kept saying to me: "3/11 is Europe's 9/11. They get it now." I expressed scepticism. And I very much doubt whether March 11 will be a day that will live in infamy. Rather, March 14 seems likely to be the date bequeathed to posterity, in the way we remember those grim markers on the road to conflagration through the 1930s, the tactical surrenders that made disaster inevitable. All those umbrellas in the rain at Friday's marches proved to be pretty pictures for the cameras, nothing more. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the slain. In the three days between the slaughter and the vote, it was widely reported that the atrocity had been designed to influence the election. In allowing it to do so, the Spanish knowingly made Sunday a victory for appeasement and dishonoured their own dead. Victor Davis Hanson The Spanish will never go after the killers of their own citizens, much less the countries who provided them support and succor, just as the Western Europeans did nothing to stop Mr. Milosevic, just as they sent a token force to Afghanistan, and hardly any to Iraq, and just as the Greeks will do nothing if their Olympics are destroyed by waves of Islamic terrorists. We should not like all this, but we also should not deny that it is so. Alain Finkielkraut E’ incredibile lo scarto tra il comportamento reale degli europei e il modo con cui lo vivono. L’Europa, titolano i giornali, è sul piede di guerra: ma non è vero. L’Europa, al contrario, dice basta, si ritira. Certo si faranno riunioni, si creerà una nuova burocrazia poliziesca e si riempiranno i treni di cani poliziotto per cercare valigie piene di esplosivo. Ma questa non è la lotta contro il terrorismo. Lottare contro il terrorismo è andare a cercare i terroristi. E a questo l’Europa ha rinunciato. In questo contesto la pace diventa l’obiettivo supremo, non in quanto obiettivo politico di mutuo riconoscimento, ma in quanto ‘sicurezza’. La pace nel senso di ‘lasciateci in pace’, ‘fateci stare tranquilli’. |
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