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sabato, giugno 28, 2008
Tiranni perdonati e presidenti pentiti/2. La fine della dottrina Bush (decretata sotto) si compie proprio nel momento in cui più bisogno vi sarebbe di una sua applicazione. Lo Zimbabwe, il Darfur, la Birmania sono solo i casi più eclatanti dell'esigenza di istituzionalizzare quella che oggi va di moda ribattezzare come "responsabilità di proteggere". Bret Stephens, sul WSJ, spiega perché non è un buon momento per ritirarsi a vita privata:
Here's a prediction: Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Here's another prediction: Mr. Tsvangirai's Nobel will have about as much effect on the bloody course of Zimbabwe's politics as Aung San Suu Kyi's has had on Burma's. Effectively, zero. Zimbabwe is now another spot on the map of the civilized world's troubled conscience. Burma is also there, along with Tibet and Darfur. (Question: When will "Free Zimbabwe" bumper stickers become ubiquitous?) These are uniquely nasty places, and not just because uniquely nasty things are happening. They're nasty because the dissonance between the wider world's professed concern and what it actually does is almost intolerable. So let's by all means end the hand-wringing and embrace the responsibility to protect, wherever necessary and feasible. Let's spare the thousands of innocents, punish the wicked, oppose tyrants, and support democrats – both in places where it is now fashionable to do so (Burma) and in places where it is not (Iraq). If that turns out to be Mr. Obama's foreign policy, it will be a worthy one. It does come oddly close to the Bush Doctrine. |
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