Thomas Jeferson and Crescent
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Carlos Mendo, a friend and a reference for journalists heading 
International, had extensive political culture of the United States, and he used to splash his conversation with a quote , a phrase that was always a place in his speech, never a remedy for the exhibition pedantic. I remember, now in these times of historic change in the Arab world that he so loved life, a Thomas Jefferson said that a few months ago: "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when c is that the Government fears the people there is liberty. " The award of the third president of the United States summed up the events we are witnessing. When the evil, ignorance and fanaticism were about to convince us that the suicide bomber was the great metaphor of the Arab world, youth of Tunisia yesterday, Egypt today and tomorrow who knows where have begun, without being not hear them arrive, a global democratic revolution yet unpredictable consequences. In less than a month, Tunisian and Egyptian ended with such trite paternalistic right and left who were condemned, with the best intentions and well it's true, to an eternal future neo-colonial oppression or religious. As happened with the fall of the Wall, the arrival of the first black president in the White House or the financial crisis, this new change of proportions telluric took us by surprise, leaving us the ungrateful ROLR prognosticators of the past. Where remained now the Euro-Mediterranean summits and all their rhetoric? Where is the Alliance of Civilisations in which Turks and Persians and the Arabs involved were absent beyond the role of witness to the Arab League? How was it possible that Ben Ali and Mubarak, already qualified without contemplation of dictators and kleptocrats, were members of the Socialist International?
Obama opted for the solution of the greatest political courage in giving his support for transition in Egypt and defeating the likely resistance from members of his team thought the most traditional. The White House seems to have drawn the necessary conclusions Iran in 1979, when Khomeini took control of the revolution, Algeria in 1992 when a military coup has drowned in blood the victory of the Islamists of the FIS, or the electoral triumph of Hamas in 2006 and its isolation International post in Gaza. Even the de-legitimization of the regime in Teheran that supposed rebellion against electoral fraud in June 2009.
Meanwhile, the EU has limited itself to repeating like an echo with a delay of 48 hours the words that came from Washington. Too little, too late. A role not best played so far, the English diplomacy. The minister pleaded Trinidad Jimenez first to Washington for a solution for Western Sahara "any", then she assured Brussels that there is no danger of contagion because Rabat Morocco "has already begun reforms" and finished in Israel, received by his counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, whose political base is anti-Arab racism. A protest was convened on Sunday in Rabat. It is likely that more will be in a frozen smile.
Luis Prados
El Pais, 15/02/2011
Translation from English: SPS-SADR
Obama opted for the solution of the greatest political courage in giving his support for transition in Egypt and defeating the likely resistance from members of his team thought the most traditional. The White House seems to have drawn the necessary conclusions Iran in 1979, when Khomeini took control of the revolution, Algeria in 1992 when a military coup has drowned in blood the victory of the Islamists of the FIS, or the electoral triumph of Hamas in 2006 and its isolation International post in Gaza. Even the de-legitimization of the regime in Teheran that supposed rebellion against electoral fraud in June 2009.
Meanwhile, the EU has limited itself to repeating like an echo with a delay of 48 hours the words that came from Washington. Too little, too late. A role not best played so far, the English diplomacy. The minister pleaded Trinidad Jimenez first to Washington for a solution for Western Sahara "any", then she assured Brussels that there is no danger of contagion because Rabat Morocco "has already begun reforms" and finished in Israel, received by his counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, whose political base is anti-Arab racism. A protest was convened on Sunday in Rabat. It is likely that more will be in a frozen smile.
Luis Prados
El Pais, 15/02/2011
Translation from English: SPS-SADR
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