Archivo «agosto de 2010»
By Donald P. Gregg, the national security adviser to Vice President George H. W. Bush from 1982 to 1988, ambassador to Korea from 1989 to 1993 and chairman emeritus of the Korea Society (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/08/10):
Former President Jimmy Carter deserves great credit for traveling to Pyongyang and securing the release of a U.S. citizen, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally entering North Korea.
The Obama administration had gone out of its way to assert that Mr. Carter was on this mission as a private citizen and that he … Seguir leyendo
This Op-Ed was originally published on September 19, 1993
By Dan Kurzman, author of Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire and the forthcoming Left to Die: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Juneau (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/08/10):
The final foundation for the monumental Mideast peace agreement was laid last month in Oslo, when Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of Israel shook hands with Ahmed Suleiman Khoury, a high official of the Palestine Liberation Organization. As the two men discussed a “Gaza-Jericho” peace plan, the ghost of Mr. Peres’s mentor, David Ben-Gurion, was surely present, the familiar leathery lion’s face aglow.
In 1933, … Seguir leyendo
By Paul D. Wolfowitz, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the deputy secretary of defense from 2001 to 2005 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/08/10):
Vice President Joe Biden, who traveled to Iraq this week to mark the formal end of United States combat operations there, has claimed that peace and stability there could be “one of the great achievements” of the Obama administration. Of course, the largest share of credit belongs to the brave men and women of the American military, who have sacrificed so much and persevered through so much difficulty. Credit also goes to … Seguir leyendo
By Saurabh Sanghvi, a third-year law student at Yale and a student director of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/08/10):
As the United States ends combat operations in Iraq today, it is leaving behind the thousands of Iraqis who worked on behalf of the American government — and who fear their lives and families are threatened by insurgents as a result.
In 2008 Congress significantly expanded a program that provided these Iraqis with visas to immigrate to the United States. But in the intervening years, the program has proven to be a bureaucratic failure. Unless … Seguir leyendo
By Ryan C. Crocker, dean of the George Bush School of Government, Public Service at Texas A&M University the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 31/08/10):
Much has been written in recent days about Iraq and anniversaries. August 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait. August 2010: The last U.S. combat brigade withdraws from Iraq. Are these the bookends of a 20-year war? Did we win? What does winning mean?
The significance of August 1990 remains considerable. It was the dramatic opening of the post-Cold War era, in which regional actors, state and non-state, could operate without … Seguir leyendo
By Stanley A. Weiss, the founding chairman of Business Executives for National Security, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/08/10):
It was 62 years ago this week — on Sept. 2, 1948 — when the principles underlying Indonesia’s foreign policy were first articulated. In a Cold War speech to the young republic just emerging from Dutch rule, future Prime Minister Mohammad Hatta asked, “Do we, Indonesians, in the struggle for the freedom of our people and our country, only have to choose between Russia and America?” No, he answered: “We must remain the subject who … Seguir leyendo
By Gadi Taub, an assistant professor of communications and public policy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the author of The Settlers (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/08/10):
Will Israel remain a Zionist state? If so, what kind? These are the important questions in Israeli politics today, and will be looming over the direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority scheduled to begin Thursday in Washington.
The secular Zionist dream was fundamentally democratic. Its proponents, from Theodor Herzl to David Ben-Gurion, sought to apply the universal right of self-determination to the Jews, to set them free individually and collectively … Seguir leyendo
By Nick Kanas, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, an adviser to NASA and the co-author of Space Psychology and Psychiatry (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/08/10):
For the past two decades, NASA has been studying what happens to people when they are enclosed in small spaces for long periods of time. The research has yielded insights that might be of use to the 33 Chilean miners, who are likely to be trapped underground for months.
Stay connected: Researchers studying confinement on long Antarctic missions came to believe in a “third quarter phenomenon,” the … Seguir leyendo
By Chrystia Freeland, global editor at large for Thomson Reuters. She is writing a book about the global super-elite (THE WASHINGTON POST, 30/08/10):
Forget the “Ground Zero mosque,” Michelle Obama’s Spanish holiday and even the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. When future historians look back to the summer of 2010, the event they are most likely to focus on is China’s emergence as the world’s second-largest economy.
Mostly, this is a very good thing. The rise of China, and the related, albeit slightly slower, emergence of India, is the story of hundreds of … Seguir leyendo
Par Abdennour Bidar, professeur de philosophie en classes préparatoires à Sophia-Antipolis (LE MONDE, 30/08/10):
La monstrueuse condamnation d’une femme à la lapidation par la République islamique d’Iran donne encore une fois de l’islam une image catastrophique, celle d’une religion archaïque, violente et totalitaire. N’essayons pas en effet de dédouaner la religion islamique du meurtre programmé de Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani en soutenant qu’il s’agit d’une décision politique. Le pouvoir de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad se fonde sur une idéologie reconnue comme celle d’un islam fondamentaliste.
En tant qu’intellectuel musulman, je dois prendre la responsabilité de dire cela haut et fort, en m’insurgeant contre … Seguir leyendo
Par Felipe Calderón, président du Mexique (LE TEMPS, 30/08/10):
J’ai trouvé, en arrivant à la présidence de la République en décembre 2006, une situation d’insécurité croissante en plusieurs points du pays, à laquelle les autorités du moment n’avaient pas apporté de réponse. En outre, les institutions chargées de la sécurité et de la justice, en particulier au niveau des Etats et des municipalités, étaient affaiblies par la cooptation et l’intimidation des organisations criminelles.
De manière focalisée, la violence allait augmentant comme résultat d’une lutte entre les organisations criminelles. Actuellement, neuf homicides sur dix se produisent entre membres de groupes … Seguir leyendo
By Behnam Taebi, an assistant professor of philosophy at the Delft University of Technology who concentrates on issues of ethics and nuclear power (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/08/10):
Tensions within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration over Germany’s energy policy cut to the heart of a contentious, worldwide debate over the future of nuclear power. The old controversies over nuclear reactors — their dangers, benefits and costs — have been raised to the forefront.
But as politicians, energy experts and the general public weigh the pros and cons, one key element in harnessing energy from the atom is being neglected: the … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Villoro, escritor mexicano (EL PAÍS, 29/08/10):
Visité la Cruz Roja Mexicana en compañía de su presidente, Daniel Goñi Díaz. El hospital ha sido renovado por completo. Con legítimo orgullo, Goñi Díaz me mostró la tecnología en los quirófanos y las pulcras habitaciones. De pronto, llegamos a un pasillo en el que solo había cuartos individuales. ¿Un lujo especial? El presidente de la Cruz Roja es notario. Hasta ese momento, había hablado en el tono de quien menciona cláusulas con las que solo se puede estar de acuerdo. Con voz grave agregó: “Estos cuartos permiten mayor vigilancia”. No … Seguir leyendo
Por Fanny Rubio, catedrática de Literatura Española de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (EL PAÍS, 29/08/10):
En estos tiempos de poetas felices la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo en Santander ha celebrado un encuentro dedicado a José Hierro a los ocho años de su muerte.
Por más que hubiera razones para abordar su relación con la ciudad y la bella bahía que le ofrece la primera imagen del símbolo del mar, recordé uno de los cursos que dirigí en los últimos meses de su vida acerca de la poesía en los años cincuenta. En el coloquio que siguió a la … Seguir leyendo
Por Alan D. Solomont, embajador de Estados Unidos en España (EL PAÍS, 29/08/10):
La semana pasada España se conmocionó y entristeció con la noticia de la muerte en Afganistán a manos de un terrorista de dos guardias civiles españoles, el capitán José María Galera Córdoba y el alférez Abraham Leoncio Bravo Picallo, y su intérprete, Ataollah Taefik Alili. Recibí esta dolorosa noticia a bordo de un avión que volaba desde Kabul a Madrid. Acababa de visitar el día anterior la base española en Qala-i-Naw, donde conocí al comandante jefe, el coronel Luis Martínez Trascasa, y su brigada de soldados … Seguir leyendo