Iraque, Afeganistão e Palestina: Sharon é a ameaça

O colunista do Guardian, Martin Woollacott, fez uma análise interessante das intervenções americanas pós 9/11 no Oriente Médio. O analista critica a lentidão da turma do baby Bush em reconhecer erros, mas lembra que a comunidade internacional tb precisa ceder para arrumar as coisas. Além disso, segundo Woollacott, o Sharon é uma das maiores ameaças à segurança das tropas e interesses americanos na região.

Bush and Powell should act with speed and vigour. Deploring the loss of life, blaming both sides and endorsing the Israeli right to respond to attacks will not do. They need to pin the responsibility where it belongs, on the Sharon government, and prevent a new round of attacks. Unpalatable though such pressure on Israel may be to this administration, it is vital to exert it if America's larger purposes are to be served. Progress toward a settlement in the Holy Land is not a panacea which will end terrorism. But lack of progress, or, worse, the abandonment of the effort to achieve it, would undoubtedly feed the growth of terrorism, and that now includes a threat to America, and anybody associated with America, in Iraq. Even if those who bombed the UN were Saddamists rather than Islamists, the two may have a common cause. Sharon, in other words, endangers American troops and American purposes, in the largest and boldest of its undertakings abroad.

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