Larissa
20th March 2003, 17:10
The war with no glory has begun. US president George W. Bush - not even representing the majority of his compatriots' public opinion - inaugurates an era of uncertainty and want to all nations. Islamic radicalism destroyed the WTC twin towers on September 11, 2001; American radicalism, put in action on March 20, 2003, symbolically destroys, at the same City of New
York, the United Nations single tower.
Is the fall of Saddam Hussein by supreme violence worth the destruction of the UN? Is it worth the contempt of Continental Europe and China? Worth the
scorn of people all over the World? Worth the arrogant disdain towards the appeals of universal conscience? When the raids over Bagdad are over, will we be living in a safer world, indeed? How can democracy be taught a fanatical through what is, in fact, another act of blind fanaticism?
Saddam Hussein is a criminal, no doubt. Against him, a safety grip, tighter and tighter, was being formed. World leaderships believed in a less painful way out of the Iraqi crisis. Now, however, the world is jumping into an inglorious, obscure pit of a belligerent adventure with a risky and dubious end, but of which one statement could already be made long before it begun:
there shall be no winners. Right now, we are all losing, but the main losers are the United States of America.
Losers for lengthening internally the terrorism paranoia; losers for creating a worldwide image and feeling of resentment and betrayal; losers for eventual European and Chinese retaliation; and, most of all, losers for
having broken the fragile alliance of the United Nations - perhaps the last shelter of the very little hope that still survived of a better world, Americans included.
Abçs.
Guilherme R Basilio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
York, the United Nations single tower.
Is the fall of Saddam Hussein by supreme violence worth the destruction of the UN? Is it worth the contempt of Continental Europe and China? Worth the
scorn of people all over the World? Worth the arrogant disdain towards the appeals of universal conscience? When the raids over Bagdad are over, will we be living in a safer world, indeed? How can democracy be taught a fanatical through what is, in fact, another act of blind fanaticism?
Saddam Hussein is a criminal, no doubt. Against him, a safety grip, tighter and tighter, was being formed. World leaderships believed in a less painful way out of the Iraqi crisis. Now, however, the world is jumping into an inglorious, obscure pit of a belligerent adventure with a risky and dubious end, but of which one statement could already be made long before it begun:
there shall be no winners. Right now, we are all losing, but the main losers are the United States of America.
Losers for lengthening internally the terrorism paranoia; losers for creating a worldwide image and feeling of resentment and betrayal; losers for eventual European and Chinese retaliation; and, most of all, losers for
having broken the fragile alliance of the United Nations - perhaps the last shelter of the very little hope that still survived of a better world, Americans included.
Abçs.
Guilherme R Basilio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil