A PROPÓSITO DEL REDESPLIEGUE de las tropas estadounidenses en el extranjero que anunció George Bush el pasado lunes, Nelson Ascher de Europundits tiene la prueba definitiva de por qué es una decisión acertada:

The best way to be sure Bush is correct about this is simply to take a look at who is complaining. The people most, so to say, saddened by the move are not those who backed openly and/or enthusiastically the invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq, neither are those who actually believe in preemption or the projection of American power where it is actually needed right now, say, in the greater Middle East, Eastern Africa, the Phillippines etc. Not at all.

The ones complaining are exactly those who have not, since 911, stopped whining about the harm the Bush administration has done to its, oh, so successful alliances with countries and whole continents that have been doing their uttermost to obstruct America’s efforts when it comes to self-defense. These guys see the US tax-payer’s money invested in the defense of countries that either don’t say openly they want to be protected or who deny there are any real big dangers in the contemporary world as the best way of making and keeping friends whose idea of friendship doesn’t involve the concept of reciprocity.