América: o regresso do isolacionismo?

Foi Woodrow Wilson, hipocritamente eleito sob a bandeira de "he kept us out of war", quem procurou por todos os meios ser um dos actores da I Guerra Mundial, vencendo a tradicional posição isolacionista americana que vinha dos tempos de Thomas Payne e George Washington. Finda a guerra de 1914-1918, que viria a possibilitar o regresso à política isolacionista, seria Franklin Delano Roosevelt quem voltaria a levar os EUA a entrar na II GG apesar de, em Agosto de 1940, em plena campanha eleitoral para o que viria a ser o seu terceiro mandato,  ter afirmado:

«And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again. Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, it will keep the threat of war from our shores. The purpose of our defense is defense»

É bastante a evidência histórica de que FDR tudo fez para fazer pender a opinião pública americana a favor da intervenção dos EUA na guerra, tendo para o efeito, não há dúvida, Pearl Harbor vindo mesmo a calhar...

Ora, apesar de o bipartizan mainstream continuar a favorecer o império (mais de novecentas bases fora dos Estados Unidos!) há cada vez mais vozes que defendem o regresso às "fronteiras" americanas. Rand Paul, o recém-eleito senador do Kentucky, é uma dessas vozes. O video abaixo, e a voz de Jack Hunter, ajuda a perceber o racional da coisa:

Transcrição:

«In the 1980’s the United States funded Iraq’s Saddam Hussein yet considered Palestine’s Yasser Arafat and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi terrorists. And they were. But so was Saddam, who at that time was terrorizing his own people, gassing Iraqi Kurds while receiving America’s financial and political support. In the 1990’s, the US declared Hussein a menace and we apparently changed our mind about Arafat, who was even invited to the White House to shake hands with Bill Clinton. In the 2000’s George W. Bush went back to calling Arafat a terrorist, went to war with Saddam, who we also began calling a terrorist, but made amends with Gaddafi by taking Libya off our official list of state sponsors of terror and sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to shake Gaddafi’s hand. Mind you, this is the same Libyan dictator that Ronald Reagan once called the “mad dog of the Middle East” and who was responsible for blowing up an airplane full of American school kids over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988.»

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