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martedì, maggio 31, 2005
La democrazia in marcia. Finanziamenti ai gruppi anti-ayatollah e monitoring diretto delle elezioni in Azerbaijan. Il tutto, come sempre, made in USA.
Iran: R. Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs, called the expanded efforts a "second track" paralleling diplomatic initiatives on Iran's support for terrorism and its nuclear program. He said the administration was "taking a page from the playbook" on Ukraine and Georgia. In those countries, the United States gave money to opposition and pro-democracy groups, some of which later supported the peaceful overthrow of the governments in power. Azerbaijan: US to conduct exit polls in November parliamentary elections. Guerrafondai e imperialisti. Come nota Lawrence Kaplan scrivendo delle rivoluzioni democratiche dall'Asia Centrale al medioriente: When it comes to democratization, either the decisive push will come from Washington or it may not come at all. "The overwhelming majority in Lebanon realize that what's happening is the result of U.S. benevolence," says Malik. "Bush is even being called 'St. George.'" Citizens in other newly democratic countries may tell pollsters they resent the United States, but, if the overwhelming preference for democracy reflected in the same polls tells us anything, they clearly want to buy what we're selling. When Washington helps oust a leader in Kyrgyzstan who hosts a major U.S. airbase, helps topple a leader in Ukraine who has dispatched his troops to Iraq, or otherwise puts its power at the service of others, it sends a signal that U.S. interests and the world's interests aren't inherently incompatible after all. "It will take time," says Egyptian political scientist Amr Hamzawy, "but, if America continues to promote democracy and work in the interests of the Arab publics, people will become more and more supportive of its foreign policy." Abroad, however, the voices in full cry today against "outside interference" belong mostly to the dictators and their allies. As for the democrats, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kyrgyzstan's Tariel Bektemirov neatly summarized their priorities. Echoing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous plea from the Soviet Union to "interfere as much as you can. We beg you to come and interfere," Bektemirov said, "I want the U.S. to interfere. I want the world at large to interfere." And so we should. |
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