" The people have made arrangements to resign "so sang the young Egyptian-Tahrir Square in the announcement of the resignation of Mubarak, their president-dictator.
That was a dictator in Italy, Europe and the rest of the West, we have "discovered" only after seeing the pictures of the streets of Cairo, full of people in protest.
One wonders, especially in America, why this late discovery.
Former U.S. Secretary of State, Condi Rice had to say in 2005: "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we have not achieved anything "
This is because, as is admitted in the New York Times" For too long we have treated the Arab world as an oil field. "
And why this happens, we leaned compliant systems that have resulted in stability and in fact, has anesthetized as Middle Eastern societies. Admits Ahmed Zewail, the Egyptian-American winner Nobel Prize for chemistry: "Egypt has been stable for 30 years because they had no vision, no aspiration and remained in a state of stagnation." But it was a state that could not last.
Before the Tunisian people, then the Egyptian one, woke up from this stupor, from hunger.
Forgive me the comparison but it was like waking up the night with stomach cramps prey. It then runs into the kitchen, open the refrigerator and try to swallow anything, no matter the label, with both hands freely.
Here was not only real hunger of many of these poor paesi, ma la fame di libertà, la voglia del piacere di scegliere il proprio futuro e di non vederlo imposto, a spingere migliaia e migliaia di persone a scendere in piazza contro i dittatori. Senza altre armi.
E nelle vicende tunisine ed egiziane, il mancato uso delle armi è stato l’aspetto più clamoroso, più sorprendente e più…bello che mi sento di sottolineare.
Finora, quelli della mia generazione la potenza della non violenza l’avevano letta sui libri o vista in tv. Gandhi e Martin Luther King sono state figure carismatiche che abbiamo conosciuto indirettamente.
Dobbiamo dire grazie ai tunisini, agli egiziani, se abbiamo had the opportunity to see directly what is the strength of non-violence. A force capable of changing the world.
"The whole day belongs to the Egyptian people - said President Obama - and the American people are moved by the scenes of Tahrir Square. The word 'Tahrir' means liberation. It 's a word that, in the words of Martin Luther King, in the soul. Will remember forever 'to the Egyptians about how they have changed their country and the world. Thank you. " Thank you for your non-violence. For Egypt was the moral force of non-violence, not terrorism, not the crazy killings, in turn, once again learning history toward justice. "
And as a famous American political commentator knowledge of the Middle East, the demonstration provided by the Egyptians could upset the plans of Islamic extremists, ending one of the longest-running conflicts that human history has ever known: the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
" It would be fascinating to see if the Palestinians to embrace non-violent mass protests in the West Bank as a strategy against the illegal Israeli settlements and the seizure of territories."
Just seems too optimistic. It 'true that the "seed of non-violence" sta contagiando l’intero Maghreb ed è già arrivato in parecchie città dell’Iran, dove proprio in queste ore è ripresa la protesta contro il regime .
In questi disgraziati paesi, la democrazia sembra finalmente essere a portata di mano. E’ lì, alla fine della strada tracciata dalla non violenza, che torna libera, sgombrata dai carri armati i cui cannoni sono rimasti muti.
Il pensiero però, non può che tornare al recente passato, a paesi diciamo meno fortunati. Mi riferisco all’Iraq e all’Afghanistan in particolare.
Non si può non pensare alle assurde “giustificazioni” advanced by the United States still dazed and in shock after the Sept. 11, one can not help thinking about those weapons of mass destruction that, in fact, did not exist.
And, above all in the States there is a debate today on the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy based in large part on military force, bombs, thanks to which one has the illusion of being able to impose democracy.
If we blindly determination shown by the Bush administration passed the practical implementation of the doctrine of "flexible response", and do not just reflect the words of Robert McNamara, defense secretary at the time of the Vietnam War and theorist of the same doctrine that has ended up traumatizing an entire generation of Americans. McNamara said: " We have no divine right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose .
Democracy is not imposed, not be imposed because it is the civilian form through which it manifests and realizes the freedom of all people, of every man.
is demonstrated, once again, the tears that flow from the eyes of the Egyptians and Tunisians. They are not tears of sorrow but of joy, great joy. That joy can give you only the awareness back to being a free man.
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