19 de Mayo 2004

Bush con el buen talante

Mark Steyn recomienda a Bush mano dura:

"Bush has to go back to speaking Rumsfeldian, not Powellite: He has to talk about winning total victory, hunting down the enemy and killing them."

... con esa facilidad que tiene para sacar lo evidente de debajo del monton de estiercol en que la prensa del buen talante y el odio antiamericano han sepultado la verdad:

"[Bush] also needs to promise himself that he'll never again apologize to some Arab despot -- even relatively benign ones, like the king of Jordan -- for events in Iraq. If he feels the need to apologize, he should apologize to the American people for apologizing to the Arab world. This isn't just because what went on in Abu Ghraib is a picnic -- well, a Paris Hilton video picnic -- compared to what goes on every day in the prisons of our Arab ''allies.'' More important than that, the Bush apology buys into one of the most fetid props of the region's so-called stability -- ''pan-Arabism.'' If U.S. troops ''humiliated'' some Portuguese prisoners, the president wouldn't apologize to the king of Norway or the prime minister of Slovenia. So why, when U.S. troops humiliate Iraqi prisoners, would he apologize to Jordan's King Abdullah or Egypt's thug-for-life? ''Pan-Arabism'' is one reason why the region's a sewer. If Iraq succeeds, it will be by breaking with regional solidarity. "

PS: Confieso mi admiración por los chicos de Hispalibertas así que si esto parece una imitación de su estilo es que, después de todo, no lo hago tan mal. Lo digo porque en algún comentario alguien me lo hace notar ... con toda la razón.