{"id":26441,"date":"2009-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/obamas-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:32:24","slug":"obamas-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/obamas-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL GENERAL DEL EJ\u00c9RCITO DE LOS Estados Unidos Stanley McChrystal envi\u00f3 la semana pasada un informe al presidente Obama en el que concluye que la situaci\u00f3n en Afganist\u00e1n se deteriora d\u00eda a d\u00eda, que la insurgencia crece, que la poblaci\u00f3n desconf\u00eda cada vez m\u00e1s de las tropas y que, peor a\u00fan, si no se aumenta el n\u00famero de soldados \u2014hoy son cien mil\u2014, la guerra est\u00e1 perdida.<\/p>\n<p>El informe de McChrystal confirma lo que ya se sab\u00eda: que los talibanes, que son los fundamentalistas religiosos m\u00e1s fan\u00e1ticos del mundo actual, son como la Hidra de Lerna: se fortalecen a medida que los atacan. El uso de la fuerza extranjera contra ellos no hace sino reforzar, en sus mentes brav\u00edas, la convicci\u00f3n de que luchan por una guerra santa y de que Dios est\u00e1 de su lado.<\/p>\n<p>En 2003 controlaban 30 de los 364 municipios (distritos) del pa\u00eds. Hoy controlan casi 200. Entre octubre de 2008 y abril de 2009 los ataques talibanes se incrementaron en un 60% y en agosto de este a\u00f1o los rebeldes abrieron nuevos frentes en el norte y occidente del pa\u00eds. Seg\u00fan el almirante Mike Mullen, la insurgencia talibana es cada d\u00eda m\u00e1s eficiente y sofisticada. Como si eso fuera poco, el presidente afgano, Hamid Karzai, encabeza uno de los gobiernos m\u00e1s corruptos del mundo (el quinto m\u00e1s corrupto, seg\u00fan Transparencia Internacional).<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed pues, adem\u00e1s de estar aliado con un gobierno repugnante, Obama parece no tener c\u00f3mo ganar la guerra. Como si eso fuera poco, en medio de la profunda crisis econ\u00f3mica que vive hoy el mundo, la guerra en Afganist\u00e1n les cuesta a los Estados Unidos la bicoca de cuatro mil millones de d\u00f3lares mensuales.<\/p>\n<p>Por todo lo anterior, muchos analistas pol\u00edticos dicen que Afganist\u00e1n es hoy el Vietnam de Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfC\u00f3mo es posible que el pa\u00eds m\u00e1s poderoso del mundo se vea involucrado en otra guerra perdida? Uno podr\u00eda entender que eso le pase a Bush, un presidente enajenado por la incapacidad mental y la ceguera religiosa. Pero a Obama, un gobernante inteligente, dispuesto a o\u00edr y acompa\u00f1ado por un equipo preparado y conocedor, \u00bfc\u00f3mo es posible que le est\u00e9 pasando lo mismo?<\/p>\n<p>La respuesta parece estar en lo dif\u00edcil que es para un pa\u00eds \u2014a las personas les pasa lo mismo\u2014 aceptar ser menos de lo que se fue en el pasado. Para los estadounidenses es muy dif\u00edcil liberarse de las glorias militares que los convirtieron en algo as\u00ed como los salvadores del mundo, a mediados del siglo XX. Los Estados Unidos ya no tienen el poder ni la capacidad para imponer un orden mundial, pero las mentes de los ciudadanos y las de sus gobernantes siguen enquistadas en esas glorias pasadas. \u201cEl orgullo m\u00e1s feroz nace de la impotencia\u201d, dec\u00eda Paul Val\u00e9ry y eso es justamente lo que le pasa al pueblo de los Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n<p>En s\u00edntesis, dos cosas me impresionan en esta guerra que parece perdida. En primer lugar, la capacidad del patriotismo cerrero para obnubilar la inteligencia de los gobiernos, incluso la de uno pragm\u00e1tico y competente como el de Obama. Segundo, que un pueblo como el estadounidense, profundamente religioso e incluso respetuoso de la dignidad humana, al menos dentro de sus fronteras, prefiera gastar millones de d\u00f3lares en una guerra perdida, al otro lado del mundo, en lugar de hacer una reforma al sistema de salud que les permita a cuarenta millones de personas ir a los hospitales sin tener que mendigar para que los atiendan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Stanley McChrystal, US military commander in Afghanistan, sent President Obama a report which concluded that the situation was getting worse every day. 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