К 9-11 можно относиться по-разному, но с тем, что это важное историческое событие, согласны все. Правильную его оценку демагогией не заменишь, вопрос в том, что считать правильной оценкой, а что - демагогией.
Д-р Коул и Елена Коббан - специалисты в области арабистики, а не пророки, их аргументацию надо понимать, а не скандировать. Любители публицистеги могут заметить, как сильно знание предмета и разумная идеология влияют на тон и оценки.
Истерическое кликушество и паранойю как рукой снимает!
Что касается пространных
рассуждений о "Риме" и "Карфагене", не говоря уже о блестящем в некоторых местах сравнении Буша с императором-философом
Марком Аврелием, то они наводят на печальные мысли. Может быть, это просто способ намекнуть, кто здесь цивилизованный, а кто - варвар?
Helena Cobban. What We Lost After 9/11Over the past five years, I have watched with horror as first Afghanistan and then Iraq were plunged into the vortex of invasion, occupation and resistance. Then this past summer, the Israelis exacted their deadly toll on civilian life and the elected governance structures in Palestine and Lebanon. The situation—and responses—of America after 9/11 and Israel after the Hezbollah attacks of July 12 were both borne from a similar view of the world. In both countries there was an understandable sense of having been badly and illegitimately wounded, and a strong sense of rage and anger.
...now, five years after 9/11, we should finally be able to look back and calmly assess to what degree our policy choices that day were helpful or counterproductive. My judgment is that because those choices unleashed further forces of violence around the world and undermined existing institutions of international cooperation, they have made everyone around the world—including us Americans—that much less secure. Today, in this globally interdependent world, our security as Americans is also reliant on the wellbeing and security of that 96 percent of the world's people who happen not to be Americans. Have enough of us learned that lesson yet? I hope so. But with President Bush increasingly framing the upcoming election as a poll on the righteousness of his responses to 9/11, many people around the world will be watching in November to see how many of us still support his view.
JUAN COLE. Think again: It's wise to challenge some 9-11 assumptions![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
