Bombings
By: Enric González
Western societies, including English, believed to be guided by reason and logic. But too often behave irrationally. Proof of this is the devotion to the oxymoron. You know, the juxtaposition of antithetical concepts. It is a very useful figure of speech to write poetry and to disguise the reality. For the advertisers love it.
If we sum up in two words the origin of the capitalist economic crisis, we could do with a famous oxymoron: "easy monthly payments." As we have to pay in installments may be comfortable, we are prepared to believe anything else: that the price of housing can go on forever, for example, or that there is always credit.
not need to resort to 1984, George Orwell's novel, to understand the political utility of the oxymoron. In the future society described by Orwell, the government operates with only four ministries: the Ministry of Truth deals with the propaganda, the Ministry of Plenty, the rationing, the Ministry Love, Torture, and the Ministry of Peace, war. In our society today, soldiers are used for peacekeeping missions. And the bombing is humanitarian.
seems like they want to bomb Libya. For humanitarian reasons, obviously. What happens in this country is deplorable, no doubt, and Muammar Gaddafi (friend of the Western leaders to do nothing) is a repulsive dictator. Gadhafi is killing many Libyans. We are outraged at the reports arriving from Libya because we are good and want the best for his neighbor, and we must do something.
There is no time to undo the mistakes that led to the current situation, as the greed of oil or support dictators terrorists who allegedly collaborating with the West in the "war against terrorism." To be frank, we are hungry for oil and nothing we do not like the massive immigration. What happens to us? As a humanitarian bombing (oxymoron) with smart weapons (oxymoron) of those who never cause collateral damage (civilian casualties formerly called), to destroy aircraft Gaddafi.
Another interesting option is to send arms to the rebels, as was done with the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan (then Osama bin Laden was a "freedom fighter" against the Soviets) or Saddam Hussein in Iraq (When was the war to Iran). What you do then with these weapons is not our concern.
not remember what happened every time the United States and generally what we call the West has sent troops on "humanitarian mission" to a Muslim country. Does anyone remember Lebanon? Does anyone remember Somalia? We prefer to ignore what the Arabs are fed up that they bombard you with the best of intentions. Not even want to see what happens in Afghanistan.
Humanitarianism is the new secular faith, any faith irrational. And yet, we guided by reason and logic
The text is from the blog of Eric Gonzalez:
http://blogs.elpais.com/fronteras-movedizas/
Kalvellido The illustration is
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