Iraq
election time and then season attacks. For orientation, here is a paper describing the election process in Iraq, the political parties in relation to the major ethnic groups and concludes with future scenarios, the most probable, given the nature proportional system and the fragmentation of parties that will form a new government will take months which will mean an increase in uncertainty during which the task for the Americans certainly will increase in spite of the weather retreat.
Even the International Crisis Group report devotes a elections and highlights the difficult situation characterized by a resumption of sectarian violence, the manipulation of the state apparatus in favor of particular groups, ethnic tribal religious etc.. And always open the question of the status of Kirkuk, contested by Kurds and Arabs, from the central government and local government. Adding to the chaos, the decision to exclude from the competition elettorale ben 500 candidati, quasi tutti non sciti; infatti ecco l'accusa da parte dei gruppi sunniti contro il governo a maggioranza scita di voler in un qualche modo truccare il risultato elettorale. A complicare le cose, sembra che non sia prevista nessuna presenza internazionale che assicuri l'imparzialità delle votazioni.
In mezzo a tanta confusione, una notizia positiva viene come sempre dal clero scita iracheno e in primo luogo si segnalano per la loro lucidità le parole del Grande ayatollah Sistani sempre più indirizzato su di una via islamica alla secolarizzazione; questa estate si è espresso contro partiti clericali univoci, in secondo luogo contro un governo formato a maggioranze unique religious and now did not want to indicate any preference for the existing parties only hope that Iraqis will choose for the good of the country.
Finally, a legal problem that the Iraqi Federal Court is to settle with important economic consequences and the distribution of power as the authority - the central government, parliament, local governments, the Prime Minister, the Minister for oil - should be empowered to conclude contracts with foreign oil companies?
Afghanistan
I drones - unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - are aircraft without Remote-controlled pilot and the result of a sophisticated engineering that allow complex series of operations, from monitoring tasks to the identification of targets including their destruction, without exposing soldiers and perhaps also acting outside the territory of Afghanistan. The action takes place in two stages: field agents, infiltrators and spies whatever signal the goal-just leave a phone, a simple magnetic tab near the target, and then there's the small planes to complete the work. At the beginning of the war were little used, but in 2009 we came to well over fifty missions and a rough estimate between 466 and 709 of the Taliban eliminated. Now, the New American Foundation gives us an interactive map, done very well, which explains the moment by moment, episode by episode, the action areas in Afghanistan based on data collected through the media: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, CNN, BBC, the Daily Times of Pakistan, and many others. A remarkable job. The blatantly obvious, it is worth emphasizing, is to increase by Obama's use of armed actions in this tool and, moreover, even in the tribal areas in Pakistan and as is clear from interactive map.
regard to Pakistan and the present American offensive in Afghanistan sono quattro le considerazioni da fare. La prima, ogni azioni di contro insurrezione deve eliminare i santuari all'estero dei gruppi anti governativi e quindi finchè i talebani potranno trovare rifugio e sostegno al di là del confine, per altro difficilissimo da controllare, vi sarà sempre una minaccia aperta; la seconda osservazione, non c'è nessuna differenza etnica, linguistica, religiosa e tribale tra le popolazioni che vivono a cavallo della Durand line , il confine disegnato dai britannici nel 1893 per difendere i loro interessi; la terza considerazione, i famosi e famigerati servizi segreti pakistani hanno aiutato da sempre i pashtun sia in funzione antisovietica che anti India ( but now things are changing ), and the last note, perhaps the most dangerous Al Qaeda also found a good shelter in this area. As you can see, most situations are mixed together and allies if they want to be able to deal with them, must act on several fronts simultaneously and with different methods and tools: to strike al-Qaeda, the Taliban isolate bad, by reintegrating the Pushtun service with the Taliban, to find a diplomatic political solution for this area that meets the needs of tribal independence and sovereignty of Pakistan, reassure Pakistan about the intentions of its neighbor India, Pakistan purge services, extending the control on the south of Kabul, seal the borders preventing infiltrations continue.
U.S.
About the wavering policy of Obama in foreign policy, on the one hand tough, but from 'one without a well-defined horizon, if not politically correct platitudes, can help to understand something quite a debate on National RView Online . The two conservative journalists and commentators Richard Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru have ignited the dust with a number of interesting also for the Italian center-right. Summarize: American conservatives are not the Tory English have no privilege to protect, rather they are in favor of the dynamism of an open society, but then what do they want to preserve? The answer is simple: the pillars of American exceptionalism. America has the task of defending his peculiarity of always, "is freer, more individualistic, more democratic, more open and dynamic than any other nation in the world." Social mobility, individual enterprise, faith in the future, patriotism, a desire for self-actualization, piety are the characteristics that make up the American citizen in most cases. Like all liberal positions, Obama's position against exceptionalism is relativistic e formalistica con la conseguenza di disegnare l'identità del paese in un divenire astratto e senza radici; ecco ad esempio le sue parole durante un viaggio in Europa: "Credo nell'eccezionalismo americano, ma sospetto proprio che i britannici credevano nell'eccezionalismo britannico e i greci nell'eccezionalismo greco". E così tutti sono contenti, le peculiarità di un popolo e della sua storia si dissolvono in un tutto indistinto.
La politica di Obama per normalizzare il paese, secondo i due giornalisti, è chiara. Obama sta portando un duro attacco a questa specificità attraverso una crescita dell'intervento dello stato nella società, si veda la riforma sanitaria e la nuova legislazione Trade. To date in U.S. government spending is much lower than in European countries and the weight of the public about the company is less than our way, just think of the Brussels bureaucracy. More power to the state, greater government intervention in economy and society, the growing weight of public administration and institutional balance of powers for the benefit of those not elected, such as the judiciary, but to the detriment of the sovereignty of citizens!
Remove the only Americans, here's the warning is to reduce the United States the same and similar to the unarmed, weak and stalista Europe!
Continue , always on NRO, Yuval Levin . How is it possible to reconcile differences between the national and universal values? Simple, the synthesis is the product of history, the particular cultural origins of the nation. Bourgeois individualism, common law British, Scottish Enlightenment, the frontier spirit, principles and experience of self-determination have been fused together from the beginning producing institutions and customs unique. You can not separate the history, facts, from the cultural and moral ideas in what could belong to all individuals and all peoples. If every nation is unique, not all countries because exceptional feel this feeling is linked to a sense of superiority over other peoples and in fact America feels he has a unique and universal mission to accomplish. Now it is a fact that the military, economic, cultural, geography and demographics make it unique attractiveness of the country. Heir to the British Empire, then it would be better to talk with James Bennet author of "The Anglosphere Challenge: Why The Inglese-speaking Nations Will Lead The Way In The Twenty-first Century"
and creator of a site dedicated to the subject of an outstanding proprio appunto dei paesi di lingua inglese. Ma secondo Levin ,se gli Stati Uniti vogliono mantenere la loro capacità di attrazione, sarebbe meglio che fondassero la loro azione su di un diritto naturale universale, composto da un individualismo fondato su basi teologiche, su verità trascendenti la storia.
Anche John Bolton , l'ex ambasciatore all'ONU, critica la strada verso la normalizzazione intrapresa da Obama e si collega alla discussione precedente riportandola sul terreno della politica estera. Il presidente democratico ha scelto scientemente una linea di basso profilo internazionale cercando di far dimenticare l'unilateralismo orgoglioso dell'amministrazione Bush e così adesso ha tessuto elogi a favore dell'umiltà e del dialogo tra le nazioni. Bolton gli risponde sarcastico, facendo notare che nel mondo il concetto di virtù e difetti cambia a seconda che si guardi gli aspetti pubblici e delle organizzazioni o agli aspetti privati delle persone. Se la modestia è una buona qualità individuale, un Churchill umile sarebbe stato una tragedia per il mondo libero. Il realismo non un punto di mezzo tra orgoglio e umiltà, ma un attributo professionale dell'uomo di stato, qualcosa di necessario a livello di governo nazionale, una mediazione necessaria tra interessi e valori.
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