Monday, January 4, 2010 by The
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The war president a year later
New York. The new year of Barack Obama has opened auspiciously, with a president who believed the world would bring peace, harmony and serenity for the sole reason not to call George W. Bush. Within days, an Islamic terrorist was stopped before it did explode aboard a plane over the skies of Detroit and eight CIA agents were killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber.
missiles Americans have begun to repeatedly hit Pakistan and their range has already reached Yemen, the Arab state which together with Somalia is the third front in the war on terrorism. Obama began his presidency by not using the language post 11 settembre di Bush. La frase “war on terror” è stata bandita dal lessico di Washington. Così come “jihadismo” e “terrorismo islamico”, sostituiti con un generico “estremismo” oppure con l’orwelliano neologismo “man-caused disaster”, disastri causati dall’uomo. Gli interventi militari all’estero sono diventati “overseas contingency operation”, operazioni impreviste oltremare. Lo stesso Obama ha invitato a non giungere a conclusioni affrettate, quando un maggiore dell’esercito americano ha fatto una strage di commilitoni urlando Allah Akbar nella base di Fort Hood. L’ideologia del politicamente corretto – secondo cui basta negare reality and simply change the name to avoid its dangers - seemed to have taken precedence over the bellicose tone of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.Questo but it was only a matter of the first phase of the Obama presidency. Behind the feel-good rhetoric designed to differentiate it from its predecessor, Obama has always acted as commander in chief of a nation at war, confirming the head of the Pentagon and the generals of Bush. Did not withdraw troops from Iraq, they have tripled in Afghanistan and the conflict has extended to Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Congress announced that she had the power to initiate military operations "in various places around the world." The CIA continues to use of rendition, kidnapping of terrorists in foreign countries, and has expanded the prison at Bagram, who for years has replaced Gitmo. The infamous Patriot Act has been confirmed and the Pentagon budget is larger than those of Bush. Obama has made some concessions to his image as a man of change, but for now they are just ads: the continuing allegations of torture, Guantanamo is still open and not close before another year, if you never quit. There will still take months for the normal criminal process architect of September 11. Obama has already said he expects the death penalty and that the terrorist cell in return, in case of acquittal. Bush's military tribunals were, as well as the right to declare "enemy combatant "detainees and to keep them in jail indefinitely and without trial. The continuity with Bush has become clear, now also in terms of rhetoric. The original illusion is over. Washington has now come back to admit that America is at war and at the Nobel ceremony, Obama did praise of the just war, acknowledged that there is evil in the world and reiterated that his country's task is to fight to eradicate it.
Christian Rocca
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