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

quinta-feira, maio 29, 2003

We, the Traitors

Três antigos dissentes da Europa da Leste, Vaclav Havel, (Rep. Checa) Adam Michnik (Polónia) e George Konrad (Hungria) foram recentemente acusados de traição pelo jornal Die Tageszeitung, por apoiarem ao guerra do Iraque, lançando-lhes o terrível epipeto de “undiscriminating admirers of America”


O polaco Adam Michnik responde pelo três num artigo publicado na Gazeta Wyborcza e reproduzido pelo Frontpage Magazine. Eis alguns excertos:

“I remember my nation's experience with totalitarian dictatorship. This is why I was able to draw the right conclusions from Sept. 11, 2001. Just as the murder of Giacomo Matteotti [leader of Italy's United Socialist Party] revealed the nature of Italian fascism and Mussolini's regime; just as the great Moscow trials showed the world the essence of the Stalinist system; just as "Kristallnacht" exposed the hidden truth of Hitler's Nazism, watching the collapsing World Trade Center towers made me realize that the world was facing a new totalitarian challenge. Violence, fanaticism, and lies were challenging democratic values”

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What, then, is our betrayal? Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate”

posted by Miguel Noronha 12:20 da tarde