PENSAR PELA PRÓPRIA CABEÇA
Num artigo muito pertubador, publicado na The New York Review of Books, Tony Judt interroga-se (interroga-nos) sobre algumas realidades do mundo dos nossos dias.
Estejamos de acordo ou em desacordo com o artigo, ou partes do artigo, existe aqui matéria mais do que suficiente para aqueles que insistem em pensar pela sua própria cabeça.
Como isco, deixamos dois excertos do longo (fica desde já feito o aviso) artigo de Tony Judt.
Boa leitura !
"Although I think Bacevich is right to see war as the heart of the matter, there is more to the current US political climate than just the cult of arms. The unrepublican veneration of our presidential "leader" has made it uniquely difficult for Americans to see their country's behavior as others see it. The latest report from Amnesty International—which says nothing that the rest of the world doesn't already know or believe but which has been denied and ridiculed by President Bush —is a case in point. The United States "renders" (i.e., kidnaps and hands over) targeted suspects to third-party states for interrogation and torture beyond the reach of US law and the press. The countries to whom we outsource this task include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria (!), Pakistan— and Uzbekistan. Where outsourcing is impractical, we import qualified interrogators from abroad: in September 2002 a visiting Chinese "delegation" was invited to participate in the "interrogation" of ethnic Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo".
"All of these practices—and many, many others routinely employed at Guantánamo, at Kandahar and Bagram in Afghanistan, at al-Qaim, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere in Iraq—are in breach of the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention against Torture, to both of which the US is a signatory (in January 2002, even the British Secret Intelligence Service warned its personnel in Afghanistan not to take part in the "inhumane or degrading treatment" of prisoners that was practiced by their US allies, lest they incur criminal liability)".[13]
Nota: É no contacto com este jornalismo que mais dói olhar para a imprensa portuguesa.
Estejamos de acordo ou em desacordo com o artigo, ou partes do artigo, existe aqui matéria mais do que suficiente para aqueles que insistem em pensar pela sua própria cabeça.
Como isco, deixamos dois excertos do longo (fica desde já feito o aviso) artigo de Tony Judt.
Boa leitura !
"Although I think Bacevich is right to see war as the heart of the matter, there is more to the current US political climate than just the cult of arms. The unrepublican veneration of our presidential "leader" has made it uniquely difficult for Americans to see their country's behavior as others see it. The latest report from Amnesty International—which says nothing that the rest of the world doesn't already know or believe but which has been denied and ridiculed by President Bush —is a case in point. The United States "renders" (i.e., kidnaps and hands over) targeted suspects to third-party states for interrogation and torture beyond the reach of US law and the press. The countries to whom we outsource this task include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria (!), Pakistan— and Uzbekistan. Where outsourcing is impractical, we import qualified interrogators from abroad: in September 2002 a visiting Chinese "delegation" was invited to participate in the "interrogation" of ethnic Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo".
"All of these practices—and many, many others routinely employed at Guantánamo, at Kandahar and Bagram in Afghanistan, at al-Qaim, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere in Iraq—are in breach of the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention against Torture, to both of which the US is a signatory (in January 2002, even the British Secret Intelligence Service warned its personnel in Afghanistan not to take part in the "inhumane or degrading treatment" of prisoners that was practiced by their US allies, lest they incur criminal liability)".[13]
Nota: É no contacto com este jornalismo que mais dói olhar para a imprensa portuguesa.
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