Como sempre faço, lá passei pelo Abrupto, e fiquei siderado. Não era para menos. O nosso amigo americano JPP ficou ofendido intelectualmente com o texto publicado no Público sobre as pretensas afirmações desse guru Wolfowitz, arauto do novo império ou do novo Sol da Terra que JPP agora reclama com paixão, depois de sucessivamente ter suspirado pela URSS, pela China e Albânia. O nosso corrector de serviço - sózinho desta vez, pois o doutor Vasco Graça Moura estava allhures a poetar - diz no seu blog aos jovens messiânicos da direita liberal (e só a esses suponho), todos deliciosamente ingénuos, mas que o vigor do génio de Pachecal afastará do pecado do espanto, o seguinte:
«De novo , continuam as falsificações deliberadas de declarações e entrevistas de dirigentes americanos na lista negra dos anti-americanos europeus (...)». Repare-se neste continum de falsificações levadas a cabo por esses malandros anti-americanos, que JPP tanto gosta de citar. Tenha-se em conta o que o JPP diz no texto, o modo como o configura inicialmente e, principalmente, o recurso às fontes de sustentação. Nada nos é dito de onde o genial JPP, desencantou as afirmações sobre as afirmações do tal Wolfowitz. E foi pena, porque não acredito que JPP, tenha deliberadamente ocultado a fonte da 'verdadeira' notícia. E bem tentámos,fazendo as buscas nos pesquisadores habituais. Eis o que nos deu, sem quaisquer outros considerandos, que a vergonha começa a invadir a face a muitos.
Aqui está a afirmação contextualizada da afirmação produzida por Wolfowitz. Trata-se do site oficial do 'US Department of Defense'. Deve chegar, ou não?
(...) Q: What I meant is that essentially North Korea is being taken more seriously because it has become a nuclear power by its own admission, whether or not that’s true, and that the lesson that people will have is that in the case of Iraq it became imperative to confront Iraq militarily because it had banned weapons systems and posed a danger to the region. In the case of North Korea, which has nuclear weapons as well as other banned weapons of mass destruction, apparently it is imperative not to confront, to persuade and to essentially maintain a regime that is just as appalling as the Iraqi regime in place, for the sake of the stability of the region. To other countries of the world this is a very mixed message to be sending out.
Wolfowitz: The concern about implosion is not primarily at all a matter of the weapons that North Korea has, but a fear particularly by South Korea and also to some extent China of what the larger implications are for them of having 20 million people on their borders in a state of potential collapse and anarchy. It’s is also a question of whether, if one wants to persuade the regime to change, whether you have to find -- and I think you do -- some kind of outcome that is acceptable to them. But that outcome has to be acceptable to us, and it has to include meeting our non-proliferation goals.
Look, the primarily difference -- to put it a little too simply -- between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is very different from that with Iraq. The problems in both cases have some similarities but the solutions have got to be tailored to the circumstances which are very different. (...)
