Geopolitics

The 11 september of 2001 has inaugurated new one was in the history of the world. The attack to the World Trade Center has not only put crisis in the relationship between the United States and the muslim world, but climate of suspicion between the two sides of the Atlantic has established one crawling.

The American military retaliation has had, it was expectable, the consequence to make to feel the Muslim Umma under check, or at least humiliated, because thought incapable to unravel itself independently of despotic regimes. In spite of the media campaign that has preceded the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, nobody, it does not know of the buttons of Washington, thought that the western troops would realistically have been received between launch of flowers and blasts of fanfare. On the big emotional wave of the disintegration of the regimen of the Taliban, Europe has unexpectedly begun to distance repentance, not following the traditional one allied in its adventurism in international field. It is put before the time for argument in Brussels to the vision of an accommodating towards Europe whichever undertaken militaristic ambitions from the States, in name of one gratefulness that laughed them to the liberation of 1945. "Old Europe", exception made for some governments which that between Italian, has left the marines that if the sbrigassero ones alone in the Iraqi marsh, putting in evidence marked differences of political strategy regarding the "America young person." On the threshold of the third millennium the interests of our continent begin to diverge regarding expressing those from the groups of being able to set up the White House woman. It is in action a true and own "cultural Cold War" that takes shape from various political, historical and social, "fought" to sound traditions of declarations to the vitriol and screzi in center the UN More than a crash than civilization between the West East and Muslim, as ominous predicted the sociologist Samuel P. Huntington (in the photo), if it he outlines of one more very realistic and worrisome between United States and European Union. In the think tank that feeds this friction they begin to being in vogue a question: Venus or Mars? The metaphor, intentionally forced, resumption from the test "Paradise and power" of Robert Kagan, columnist of the Washington Post and influential member of the Project for New American Century to, one opens rubble on the divergent cultural perspectives and the cleavages able to crack the special relationship of a time. In its petition, the essayist American rincara the dose asserting the paradox which the European states only thanks to the defensive umbrella can be enjoyed their "postmodern paradise" the United States. And they do not have the good taste of ringraziare.From a part Europe, not having lived on its bloody skin lacerations, not last the fratricidal wars in the Balkans, which disposed power to the proposed dialogue is on the scene and planetary the reluctant to pursue own interests through the use of the force. From the other the USA, than in the last two centuries have loved to consider themselves and to introduce a nation like patient, pacific and slow to anger (reluctant to incollerirsi), begin to demonstrate hour if not the exact contrary. It is to Mars "stars and stripes", ready to move war to true or imaginary enemies and reluctant to listen to any council, what it has been delineated in the last three years. Multilateralism against unilateralism. Historical Heritage against juvenile unconsciousness. Political rationalism against neoconservatrice ideology. Can Brussels become one credible alternative to Washington?

Autore: Stefano Careddu