Zlopamtilo: Militantni levičarski liberalci v spregi z desničarskimi

21 marca, 2023 By in gospodarstvo 2 komentarja

To, kar danes Putinova vojska počne v Ukrajini, je (nekoliko milejša) verzija tega, kar je Natova vojska leta 2003 naredila v Iraku. Z zemljo je zravnala državo, da bi “prinesla demokracijo”, pri čemer je bilo ubitih med 300 tisoč in 1 milijonom ljudi (ocene so različne). Zanimiva pa je bila totalna in enostranska medijska kampanja, ki je promovirala upravičenost Natove intervencije (pod krinko uničenja “orožja za množično uničevanje”), pri čemer so v prvih vrstah skupaj z neokonzervativci stali levi liberalci. Natova agresija se je zgodila brez mandata Združenih narodov, kar pa levih liberalnih opinion makerjev in liberalnih medijev, ki so pisali promocijske pro-vojne uvodnike, ni motilo. Profesorica Anne-Marie Slaughter, liberalna dekanja univerze Princeton, je celo zapisala, da “kar je legitimno, je tudi legalno“. Boštjan Videmšek je prejšni vikend v Delu lepo napisal, da je bilo “orožje za množično uničevanje koalicija voljnih“. K tej koaliciji voljnih bi moral dodati še levo liberalno – neokonzervativno militantno koalicijo medijev in opinion makerjev.

Spodaj je odličen pregled provojnega enoumja v liberalnih medijih pred začetkom Natove invazije na Irak, ki ga je pripravil Nicholas Guyatt, profesor zgodovine na Cambridgeu.

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For those too young to have lived through what happened twenty years ago, a thread of self-styled left/liberal types endorsing the invasion of Iraq Image

Michael Ignatieff’s infamous NYT magazine cover story from January 2003 (Ignatieff was founding director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights) nytimes.com/2003/01/05/mag… Image

 

New Yorker editor David Remnick’s “case” for invasion, 26 January 2003 newyorker.com/magazine/2003/… Image

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, “The I-Can’t-Believe-I’m-a-Hawk Club,” 8 February 2003 nytimes.com/2003/02/08/opi… Image

Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, 3 March 2003 newrepublic.com/article/66773/… Image

Lawrence F. Kaplan, New Republic senior editor, 3 March 2003 newrepublic.com/article/66763/… Image

Elie Wiesel, Paul Berman, Joseph Nye et al., “Liberals for War,” 14 March 2003 nytimes.com/2003/03/14/us/… Image

Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton’s School of Public & International Affairs, “Good Reasons for Going Around the UN,” 18 March 2003 nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opi… Image

Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer winner and NY Times columnist, “D-Day,” 19 March 2003 nytimes.com/2003/03/19/opi… Image

This is just a tiny selection (from the US, not the UK); feel free to post more as a tribute to the groupthink that created this huge disaster for Iraq, the region and the world. Remember also that this doesn’t include the talking heads on TV news who were overwhelmingly pro-war

And I haven’t included any of the books from that cursed year, that could be a whole extra thread ImageImage

Goes without saying that virtually everyone in this thread continued to fall upwards thereafter; also that the effect of their work in 2003 was to legitimise the claims made more honestly (though less decorously) by the neocons – see Jonah Goldberg (from 2002) below Image

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Vir: Nicholas Guyatt, twitter

2 responses

  1. How many of those calling for Putin’s arrest were complicit in the illegal invasion of Iraq?
    George Monbiot- Guardian 20.3.2023

    Všeč mi je

  2. No, primerjava med Rusijo in Ameriko glede Ukrajine in Iraka ni ustrezna. Nobene ameriške manjšine ni v Iraku, ki bi tam živela že stoletja. Irak ni nikoli ogrožal ozemlja Amerike ali ameriških sil v svetu. Irak ni bil nikoli del Amerike. Amerika je več kot 6.000 km stran.

    Na drugi strani je bila Ukrajina skoraj pol tisočletja del ruske države, ruska manjšina tam živi že stoletja. Tej ruski manjšini so bili z ukrepi ukrajinske oblasti vzete temeljne človeške pravice po Ustanovni listini Združenih narodov.. Glej:

    O vzrokih, ki so pripeljali do vojne v Ukrajini
    https://damijan.org/2022/06/27/kaj-vam-mediji-niso-povedali-o-ukrajini-pro-korrini-narodi-ukrajini/

    Ukrajina se je s spremembo ustave zavezala, da hoče postati članica vojaškega bloka (NATO), ki šteje Rusijo za svojega glavnega sovražnika in katerega predstavnik obvladujoče sile (Biden) javno razglaša, da hoče narediti “regime change” in razkosanje Rusije. Ukrajina že 9 let napada in ubija (več kot 5 tisoč mrtvih od tega desetina otrok) rusko prebivalstvo v Donbasu. Ukrajina sistematično požiga ruske knjige v knjižnicah in sistematično načrtno izrinja uporabo ruskega jezika iz šol, uradov in javnega življenja. Glej:.

    While announcing a meeting with relevant organs, Yevheniya Kravchuk, chairwoman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s Subcommittee on Information Policy and European Integration, said that 19 million books had already been cleared away from Ukrainian libraries last November.

    Of these, 11 million were shredded because they were signed by Russian authors in general.

    This program, which began in June 2022, aims to destroy 100 million books related to Russian culture [1]. So this is just the beginning.

    It is the largest censorship plan since World War II. Several Heads of State and Government have spoken out in favor of Ukraine joining the European Union “as soon as possible”.

    https://www.voltairenet.org/article218810.html

    https://www.voltairenet.org/article217312.html

    On 19 May 2022, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy issued instructions the Ukrainian Book Institute to destroy all books published in Russia, printed in Russian or translated from the Russian language.

    According to the director of the Book Institute and former president of the Publishers’ Forum, Oleksandra Koval, it will be necessary to destroy at least 100 million books that convey evil. Some works will be preserved by university libraries for specialists to study the roots of Evil.

    This auto-da-fé also targets all the classicis of Russian literature from Alexander Pushkin to Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

    Kdaj je Irak to delal Američanom?

    Všeč mi je

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