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04/11/04
- Elections
américaines - Bush réélu ! Un monde désespéré - Bush re-elected
! A dispiriting world...
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth
in defense of our great nation." - George W Bush in Bob
Woodward's Plan of Attack
Around
the World - With a Handful of Exceptions, Most See Results as Dispiriting
Washington Post 04/11/04
"...Political leaders in a handful of countries such as Russia, Italy, Britain and Israel were enthused by the
result, analysts said. But
the large numbers of people across the world who had dismissed the Bush
administration as a one-term aberration that had come to office
illegitimately were stunned to see the president win..."
An
ominous watershed? 4 more years of trauma?
The Daily Star 04/11/04
"Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity
among Arabs, US President George W. Bush's re-election victory was greeted
in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding..."
This
is no passing phase. This is now an era
Guardian 04/11/04
"Once it looked like an aberration. Now it is an era. George
W Bush's tenure of the White House was born in 2000 to an
electoral quirk, the fruit of a Florida fiasco, the arcane algebra
of the US electoral system, and a split decision of the supreme
court.
It seemed to be the accidental presidency, one that would stand
out in the history books as a freak event..."
"...Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and
beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a
Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will
instead have to adjust to a different reality.
For four years many hoped that the course charted by President
Bush - a muscular go-it-alone view of a world divided between the
forces of darkness and those of light - would prove to be a blip.
Come November 2, 2004, they wanted to believe, normal service
would be resumed. The United States would return to the old way of
doing business, in concert with allies and with respect for the
international system the US itself had done so much to create. The
norms of foreign policy pursued by every president from Roosevelt
to Clinton, including the first George Bush, would be revived.
Senator Kerry promised as much.
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Now that fantasy will be shelved. The White House is not about to
ditch the approach of the last four years. Why would it? Despite
the mayhem and murder in Iraq, despite the death of more than
1,000 US soldiers and countless (and uncounted) Iraqis, despite
the absence of weapons of mass destruction, despite Abu Ghraib,
the Bush administration won the approval of the American people.
If Bush had lost the neo-conservative project would have been
buried forever. But he won, and the neo-cons will welcome that as
sweet vindication..."
A
four-year nightmare
Guardian 04/11/04
"It is not anti-American to reject this imperial
power..."
"...Make no mistake, the fear and despair evoked across the
globe by the US election result are shared by many millions of US
citizens. Indeed, their grief, their frustration, has a peculiar
intensity - because there's no loathing like the loathing within
families. The 55 million Kerry voters who went to the polls
primarily motivated by a burning desire to dump Bush are no more
reconciled to his rule this morning than they were a few days ago..."
Damn
politics, let's dance
Asia Times 04/11/04
"...Fasten your seat belts: it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Control of the presidency, Senate, House. A popular mandate. Four
more years. Possibly four more wars. In a nutshell, chief
strategist Karl Rove got the evangelicals out in force. According
to a series of Gallup polls, 42% of Americans declare themselves
evangelicals or born-again Christians. Bush always had a head
start of 42%..."
"...The United States may have gone to the polls as a
divided, uncertain, paralyzed-by-fear nation. Today it's still a
divided, uncertain, paralyzed-by-fear nation, but now with a clear
mandate for the state really to rock the geopolitical boat.
The "most important election of a lifetime" has sent a
clear message to the whole world: the face of America in the next
four years - barring a Richard Nixon-style impeachment - will be
of unilateralism, the "war on terror" possibly
progressively escalating into a clash of civilizations. And pay
attention to the "axis of evil" hit list - the official
and the bootleg. Bush II will attack what it defines as
"state terrorism" - Iran, Syria - instead of the global
jihadi network. It will continue to rely on Pakistan to
"decapitate" the odd "high-value al-Qaeda". It
won't engage in diplomacy to address the political causes of
terrorism. It won't engage in a cultural and ideological effort to
try to counteract the global jihad - especially now that Osama bin
Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri have changed the rules of
the asymmetrical game from a religious clash to a political
struggle against imperialism..."
"...The faith-based, apocalyptic evangelicals have won this
battle against the "reality community". Bush won despite
Tora Bora, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib. The crusade continues. In God
we trust - and also in Osama bin Laden. He got exactly what he
wanted."
In
God - or reality - we trust
Asia Times 03/11/04
"...The choice now is stark, between faith-based domination
and rational leadership; between a messianic cult backed by vast
corporate power and the "reality-based community". For
the Bush administration, power creates reality - and hubris is an
alien concept. It's a non-reality-based paradigm, as a senior Bush
official told the New York Times: "We're an empire now, and
when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying
that reality ... we'll act again, creating other new realities,
which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.
We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to
just study what we do."..."
"...Thus the Christian evangelist, God-fearing, anti-gun-control,
anti-abortion, anti-stem-cell-research and anti-United Nations crusading armies defending true "American
values". Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky or Mao Zedong never thought
about this: working-class masses supporting a political party that
lavishes tax cuts on the wealthiest 1% of the population
and that is fully committed to destroying the civil
institutions that support the working class.
These Bush-voting armies consider themselves under siege, are
fiercely anti-intellectual (like the president himself) and
in essence anti-modern. So no wonder this translates into a
very ugly, aggressive brand of American nationalism. The
"other" - especially the foreign Muslim other - is the
ultimate enemy. The Bush administration's response to September
11, 2001, was a "war on terror", a misguided tactic
(war) against a concept (terrorism). But the concept of "war
on terror" was brilliant - because it inextricably linked
this ugly, Bible-quoting American nationalism to the Republican
agenda.
Global
monitors find faults
International Herald Tribune 03/11/04
"The global implications of the U.S. election are undeniable,
but international monitors at a polling station in southern
Florida said Tuesday that voting procedures being used in the
extremely close contest fell short in many ways of the best global
practices.
The observers said they had less access to polls than in
Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than
in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the
Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex
national election system..."
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