O Intermitente
(So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, good-bye)

sábado, março 29, 2003

Iraquis Know it Better

Um excelente artigo da Spectator (recomendado pelo Instapundit) demonstra-nos, de uma forma eficaz, que o iraquianos sabem mais sobre o verdadeiro carácter das tropas da coligação que os frequentadores das manifs anti-guerra de fim-de-semana:

In so far as the enemy has a strategy, it’s to use their own people as hostages. The ‘pockets of resistance’ in the southern towns have been able to make mischief because they blend in with the local populations. They know that Washington and its allies are concerned above all to avoid casualties among Iraqi civilians and, indeed, among your typical Iraqi conscripts. In other words, everything the Baath regime does is predicated on the moral superiority of their foe. If things were the other way round, if Iraq invaded Vermont and some diehard Yankees holed up on the outskirts of White River Junction and started firing on Saddam’s forces as they attempted to advance up the valley, the Republican Guard would think nothing of levelling the entire downtown area and everyone in it. Who’s going to complain? There’s no Baghdad ‘Not In Our Name’ movement.

So Harold ‘Poems R Us’ Pinter may think the Yanks are itching to massacre thousands of innocents, but the behaviour of the Baathist nutters suggests they know better: they assume Western decency

posted by Miguel Noronha 11:28 da manhã