It is yet to come…

… the day when Bush Administration will be seen as the major responsible factor for the escalade of violence in the last few years. The tendency begins to gain shape in the middle of the President’s propaganda, in spite of being now seen as Dick Cheney’s right arm, when the opposite would be expected. Still I don’t see George W. Bush as the idiot he appears; he’s a strategist, a follower of his father footsteps, which isn’t at all positive.

In relation to the geopolitical options of the Bush Administration i’m globally against them. I believe that fighting terrorism with terror is a foolish thing to do when aware to the international security; the mere existence of the so called ‘terrorist’ groups only makes sense when opposing to something, and that ’something’ is the attempt of democratization and occidentalization of countries where culturally reality is far different. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense that Bush affirms that he intends to end political exploration and despotism throughout the world when he only intervenes in the Persian Gulf naighbour countries, leaving aside serious humanitarian situations happening, for example, in North Korea and China, where a significant part of the population still lives in misery.

The interest isn’t necessarily in improving the international social well-being; it is, most of all, in reaching political-economic and imperialistic interests in arab land, where the ‘Islamic Revolution’ should long ago have had the effect of making the west know that it’s impossible to generalize regional political conceptions and ideologies to other parts of the world, where societies maintain other visions on life itself.

9/11 was no more than a clever answer from an islamic fanatic group to the imperialistic north-american pursuit. It isn’t strange that since then only Bush Administration supportive countries have been attacked. Totally reprehensible, the aerial attack gained, and continues doing it, all the mediatic attention to the war field. One forgets the unnecessary american attacks to islamic countries.

The unconditional support to Israel is another clear signal of the less importance attributed to the humanitarian side on the process. The israeli attack to Lebanon was a coward one and, even worst, it was left unpunished, which was expected from the USA but not in an international level, where the silenced UN revealed how americanized it is. The ‘until-the-war’ martirized people of Israel adopted, for the very first time, an offensive posture, which won’t be at all positive in a medium-term period. The arab naighbours don’t forgive the concession of the holy land to the jews, and that sentiment has, clearly, raised after the killing spree we attended motionless.

This post is cross-posted in my personal blog.

Rui Rocha