segunda-feira, março 15, 2004

Socialistas espanhóis = fim do multilateralismo

Na Blogosphera, um dos mais lidos (e interessantes) é o blog do Glenn Reynolds. No post abaixo ele cita mais gente blogeira e o comentário é interessante. Clique no trecho para ler o resto.

Isso me faz lembrar... a Al-Qaida tem razão: outra globalização é possível...

EUGENE VOLOKH points out that the Spanish election makes "multilateralism" even less appealing:

Those voters' position would be understandable -- perhaps not terribly sound in the long term, but understandable: The deaths were caused by Aznar's policies, since if he had not supported the Americans (over the opposition of most Spaniards, as I understand), the bombings probably wouldn't have happened; therefore, let's punish Aznar, and send politicians a message to prevent this from happening again.

But if that's so, then doesn't it show that we can't allow our foreign policy to be vetoed by other nations? After all, if we agree that we may not do what we think is right and necessary for our national security if any one of England, France, Russia, or China says "veto," then our enemies can paralyze us simply by influencing one foreign country. The influence might be exerted by bribes (more here), or by threat of terrorist violence. But one way or another, an enemy that couldn't break down our resolve could still stop us from doing what needs to be done by breaking down the resolve of one of the veto-owning countries. (The same applies if we just generally agree not to go ahead without the agreement of "our European allies" generally -- if the threat of terrorist retaliation cows several of those allies, that could be enough to stymie our plans.)