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martedì, dicembre 21, 2004
Una serie di disgraziati eventi. David Brooks - al meglio - sulle previsioni sbagliate delle eterne (e interessate) cassandre del nostro tempo:
It almost makes you think that all those bemoaners and condemners don't know what they are talking about. Nothing they have said over the past three years accounts for what is happening now. It almost makes you think that Bush understands the situation better than the lot of them. Notevole anche la riflessione di Fareed Zakaria (che oggi le cassandre probabilmente non citeranno). Things are changing... In 2004, however, one can point to more than simply the absence of support for fundamentalism. There are glimmers of reform, even in the Arab world, the place that remains the locus of the problem. Governments are talking about changing their economic and even political systems. Some are doing more than talking. This early enthusiasm could easily dissipate. Arab elites remain enormously resistant to reform and will try to scuttle plans for change. But I sense that the dinosaurs are on the defensive. For the first time, other views are being aired. |
A Fabio.
A Luisa.   
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