Spanish lessons for America Democracy

Recomiendo leer dos artículos en Znet que reflejan opiniones muy distintas a las que nos han tenido acostumbrados los medios foráneos desde las elecciones.
“Don´t Play with our dead” (Spanish lessons for America Democracy) de Paul Street.

“The United States could learn a thing or two about politics, media, public morality and the meaning of democracy from Spain. Jolted by an apparent al Qaeda terror attack, the Spanish people have refused to go down the dangerous and paranoid post-9/11 path of U.S. doctrine and policy. They have rejected sanctimonious talk about the conflict between Islamic evil incarnate and absolute western good. They have refused to axiomatically absolve their government of any blame for the March 11 Madrid bombings (3/11) and to denounce any elementary discussion of Spanish state responsibility as evidence of insidious “anti-Spainism” and as equivalent to the justification of mass murder. Without excusing terrorism, they have rejected the doctrinal U.S. claim that al Qaeda and its ilk launch random attacks on the West simply out of spiteful, devilish hatred of western “freedom”.”

“Iraq, one year on” de Rober Fisk.

“Liberation, Democracy, a New Middle East. There was no end to the ambitions of the conquerors. I remember how anyone who attempted to debunk this dangerous nonsense would be set upon. Try to explain the crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001, and you were anti-American. Warn readers about the crazed alliance of right-wingers behind President Bush and you were anti-Semites. Report on the savagery visited upon Iraqi civilians during the Anglo-American air bombardment and you were anti-British, pro-Saddam, sleeping with the enemy. When Blair’s first “dossier” was published – most of it, anyway, was old material on Saddam’s human rights abuses, not weapons of mass destruction – the beast’s weapons capability was already hedged around with “mights” and “coulds” and “possiblys”. When a day after Baghdad’s “liberation” I wrote in The Independent that the “war of resistance” was about to begin, I could have papered my bathroom wall with the letters of abuse I received. Letters like those no longer arrive.”