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It is right to save Gilad Shalit at any price?

The Israeli government a few months' is negotiating to release the young corporal Gilad Shalit, abducted in June 2006 by Hamas, and in return seems ready to release about 980 Palestinian prisoners, including murderers and terrorists are included. In reality the deal, all seems to revolve around four people Hamad Ibrahim, Abdullah Abbas Asayeb Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat, who absolutely wants Hamas and that Israel has strong difficulties to release.
The four are among the main culprits in the bathroom of blood which occurred in Israel between 200th and 2003, after a long series of suicide attacks.
Specifically, Hamad leader `s armed wing of Hamas in Ramallah is in jail, because` in 2004 killed an Israeli woman eight months pregnant and his four sons aged 11, 9, 7 and 2 years.
Abdullah Barghouti, the son of Marwan Barghouti, the strategist is to prepare the `explosive belts used by suicide terrorists to cause at least four killings between 2000 and 2003.
`l` Abbas Asayeb organize suicide bombing at Park Hotel in Netanya that cost is the lives of 29 people.
Ahmed Saadat, the `one does not belong to Hamas, is the leader of the Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and is in prison for murdering the 2001 Rehavam Ze'evi, a former minister for tourism.
Inevitably, the eventual release of their 'concern' and divides Israeli opinion publica.

In particular there are two objections that are leveled at the Israeli government.
A is mainly of nature "moral" issue because it means these terrorists inflict a new injury to persons or victims of the attacks that they have lost loved ones.
One other security concerns of Israel. Legitimately, in fact, one wonders if this strategy of terror issue does not involve the possibility of the outbreak of a third intifada, (according to some commentators already ready to burst because of the power struggle between Hamas and Al Fatah) with a new barrage of terrorist attacks throughout Israel.
addition, the acceptance of the exchange will be 'by Hamas as a victory, something that `s who` will favor the expansion of its influence in Palestinian society. Finally
to the agreement could encourage terrorists to carry out more abductions of Israeli soldiers and citizens.
In any other democracy, the question most likely would not even post because no `in the normal state would give a similar blackmail.

Israel instead must face this problem because it is `always been one endangered by neighbors.
A state, a society in such conditions, can not do without the cohesion of his army, much less can the risk of a growing conviction that the soldiers alive or dead can be left in the hands of the enemy.
Most likely, the spread of this concept, would be the beginning of the end for the state of Israel.
This aspect will be added back even a kind of `other 'philosophical-ontological."
The conflict between Israel and Islam `is it expressed through terrorist groups (Hamas, Hezbollah), states (Iran) and / or transnational networks (Muslim Brotherhood) is primarily a contrast between two conceptions of man, the life of the world. On the one hand the Islamist movement that he founded, or dreams to realize, closed society based on terror, hatred and where people are instilled a value that goes against the nature of man `and` what `s love for death.
From the other an open society based on the love for life, the protection of the weak, the commitment to give a future to their children.
Israel, just because is is well aware that is can not let their children be abandoned to the Islamists, even if this entails sacrifices incredible.
can not do it even if, as he recalls the Corriere Pierluigi Battista, ie involves release in nearly thirty years many of which 7,000 Arab prisoners involved in terrorist acts to get back "only" 14 soldiers or their remains.

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Poland treats the two totalitarian regimes of the last century

sites yesterday and today on the Italian press, is the news that appeared in Poland WOULD BE banning the symbols of this news is partial comunismo.Ebbene and distorts the meaning of the government's decision polacco.Il bill provides that both the Communists and those Nazi symbols are banned.

In other words, it is not a purely anti-Communist position, is to equate the two totalitarian regimes of the past century: Nazism and communism.

From historical point of view everyone agrees, except for some notable exceptions, the Communists everywhere were able to seize power by force or fraud schemes have also established anti-human freedom.

These regimes have survived only by depriving its citizens of fundamental freedoms such as freedom of religion, freedom of 'expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of movement.

They built and maintained their power based on 'mass murder, on `` arbitrariness of state power, destroying the family ties, instilling fear and suspicion to their citizens.

All this could not only lead to misery and poverty is could not break down as soon as these rulers have tried (during the Gorbachev once was), to maintain these patterns of evil in life, without resorting to indiscriminate violence.

In Western Europe and in Italy and is widely used however, is the concept that these regimes, in the end were the expression of a distorted view of communism and the idea of \u200b\u200bcommunism itself is good.

Well, the Polish government's decision is also important from this point of view because it helps bring out the `reality '.

Communism is a bad idea and can not have that as a practical application of the `SETTING UP totalitarian / dictatorship violence based on suspicions, on `mass murder.

The reason is simple: such as the Nazi political doctrine is based on the concept of collective guilt a priori. According to this concept is not the individual who is possibly to blame for our actions, but rather is a particular ethnic group, social, religious, and for its very existence that can not do evil and therefore must be eliminated.

Nazism as a discriminatory racial communism classe.Secondo the Nazi theory was born jew or anyone was a member of an inferior race was evil and had to be eliminated for the good of Humanity 'that should have been guided by upper class: that ariana.Secondo communist theory (both in the Marxist version, both in the Marxist Leninist, and in that Maoist) was born bourgeois anyone was evil, could only do evil and its existence could not harming ` humankind. Indeed, only its removal from the face of the earth could end all human injustice and provide a `bright future to humankind. Therefore the mass killings carried out by communism are all nothing but a` or `exasperation a distortion of the original conception, on the contrary are a logical application.

Consequently, the Polish government's decision to equate the two officially totalitarianism is right and hope is the first step towards a European decision in this direction.

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We waited for the' Italy rugby came back to win today against Samoa (24-6), to publish photos of San Siro, Italy-All Blacks two weeks ago.

sold out, awesome scenery, the usual suggestone haka. Great feast of rugby. Not even the idiot behind us at the time of the hymns he sketched out a "Va pensiero" from my thunderstruck, "but is silent!" and 'could not spoil.

was the Northeast like me, unfortunately. But from another galaxy ...

Here's photo gallery .

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`Poverty affects the quality of terrorism is not the quantities

In January of this year `all` Univerity of Harvard and held a conference on `one of the most controversial issues in the last 20 years: the link between Islamic terrorism and the conditions of poverty '.

Many journalists and intellectuals, especially liberals and / or Marxist school, tend to present such a correlation as `the only plausible explanation for the phenomenon of terrorism right. The evidence shows that poverty certainly she is the alienation social hardship are factors to consider in explaining the influence and spread of Islam, but they are the root causes of that phenomenon it of its terrorist event.

It is enough greasy see the biographies of the bombers, to see how the vast majority of them belong to the media or to their upper middle class and have at least one case, the higher degree of Mohamed Last Game.Game try ` last October to blow themselves up inside the barracks at Santa Barbara Milano. The next day, almost every newspaper as if it were a reflex have described the attack as `the` act of extreme isolation, poor depresso.Nei days is the result instead of `bomber was integrated member of the Islamic community in Milan and had an engineering degree.

Other experts argue that if poverty is `not factor in the terrorist actions of AlQueda, it is rather with regard to Palestinian terrorism.

From this point of view this conference is very interessante.Gli result scholars have analyzed the data provided by `the ISA (Israeli Security Agency` s) about the Palestinians from 2000 to 2006 have attacks made (or tried to) in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and have concluded that poverty affects ` quality not quantity 'of suicide attacks.

In other words, the various Palestinian terror organizations to carry out more complex attacks against targets deemed most important and the success of which leads to higher benefits (including in the media) to the organization, recruit people with a culture and an above-average income.

shown in particular that the average suicide bombers among those who attend the university or have already graduated `and` High `s more than the 8% average.

In contrast to carry out attacks considered less important, or more easily are often employ people with a cultural level and an income equal to or less than the media often show a lower efficiency.

are obvious similarities with the global Islamist terrorism for the attacks in major cities (New York, Bali, Istanbul, Rabat) used experienced graduates of the average upper middle class, while in Afghanistan or Iraq also uses the illiterate and poor.

There are also other interesting news deductible dale biografie.Infatti them, most of them came from the West Bank, were more effective if they had an `adequate education, they were mostly males between 20 and 30 years

In the meantime, however`, surveys show that a high level of unemployment, widening the "reservoir of` user ' of terrorist organizations, particularly those which, as does Hamas, also provide social support and cultural rights, by making available to the public kindergartens, schools and hospitals.

`This does not mean that the solution is the one preferred by the Association and the European Union Dale United Nations funding to rain.

fact funding free from any educational and social organizations help only "social terrorist" Hamas as to expand their power and their influence on the population.

All I did was provide some thoughts, for those who were `CONCERNED UNDER deepen the topic may find the report of the conference:

"Conditions and the Quality Economics of Suicide Terrorism" on the site of Harvard University `

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From San Francisco to announce that the Garda is to become Pope '


looked like a gathering of friends fresh Erasmus, from Italy, France, Spain and the USA. All strictly Under 35 (many under 30) with only two perky over 50.

Well we have learned to cope with such situations by living in Silicon Valley, with that first visit to traumatizing Google, where no one seemed to exceed 30 ...

The party, however, a few weeks ago in a beautiful family villa on Lake Garda, and 'was that of Albert, our friend Friuli transplanted in California (center in photo).

crosses more 'times in San Francisco, Alberto wanted around her' friends from different countries for a surprise announcement: he is to become Pope '! Twins, while his mother and 'in Los Angeles. Surprise even to him, seems to understand.

emotion, joy, one more reason '(there was no need?) To toast. Great party, for the record the watchful eye of Pula has taken the essence (of the party? Of the contemporary world?) Look at the pictures and you will discover that the girls made merry, boys engage in chores' ...

The party on Lake Garda in this gallery.

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A brief reflection on not stop dancing. The theater

not stop dancing is a book about individual people, ordinary people, who before being brutally killed were participating in the life of their community `s enriched with their talent and their commitment while maintaining their identities, their specific nature

This book is a book of names and it is this aspect that I would focus my attention.

we as a society we `Open chosen as our symbol sentence a quote from Milton Acorda: "Without freedom no one, in reality, has a name."

This phrase has always struck me cause we're all writers, philosophers, politicians who historically have freedom of speech and writing are associated with loss of it the loss of life, human dignity, of the property but no one has ever associated with the loss of the name.

Studying Novecento has realized that in reality the name symbolizes and combines all these values.

The name is a symbol of the specific nature of each person unique and unrepeatable.

It is the symbol of `individual who belongs to a community observes the rules and laws that help to create but do not submerge it.

Ultimately, the name is the symbol of Humanity `inherent in every one of us.

last century two totalitarian, communist and Nazi devaluation have dehumanized and tens of millions of human beings, turning them from people with a name to mere numbers.

L `Europe` tomorrow will celebrate the 20 years after the fall of the wall and each year seems to remember the Holocaust not be able to understand how today we are facing a new totalitarianism potentially just as dangerous: the Islam.

From the phenomenological point of view `Islam is a lot of movement away from Communism and Nazism, but the substantive point of view belongs to the same political family.

L `Islam, is his concept of collective guilt a priori which is the fundamental discriminant, from my point of view, to establish a totalitarian conception of politics and the application of which inevitably leads to terror and genocide .

According to this concept is not the individual who is possibly to blame for our actions, but rather is a particular ethnic group, social, religious, and for its very existence can not do that evil and therefore must be discarded.

athletes Monaco 72, Daniel Pearl (journalist jew American beheaded in Pakistan), Leon Klinghoffer (jew American killed on `Achille Lauro) Ilan Halimi (French jew boy tortured to death in France) all those whose stories are so `" humanely "killed told in this book exclusively Why Jews are the martyrs who tragically demonstrate this idea.

Before concluding, I would like to reflect briefly on the figure of the terrorist suicide bombers. Too often in Europe, trying to explain this phenomenon through an `economic interpretation. `So I like to call those who committed suicide mass murderers are presented as desperate poor, who agree to be weapons of despair.

In reality, their products shows that at least the 80% of them have higher education or a `univeristaria and belong to medium high borghesia.Allora Why choose this solution?

They choose to become suicidal mass murderers because 'they share, they feel its the concept that guides the `Islam in its relations with the Jews: that a jew is as worthy of death is born.

based on what is is much more logical and useful to the glorious cause of Islam kill thirty Jews in a nightclub or in a nursery that three soldiers.

conclude by stating that we Europeans, we need books like these, books that show how hope can prevail over despair, the love for life can take precedence over the culture of death. We need books that show that first of all are the ordinary people, simple, common to be the first bulwark against nnichilismo, the first harbingers of hope.

We still need more time for the institutions and the European elites seem so absurd to consider a conquest remove God from the world, society and personal relationships, in spite of the last century to demonstrate which bark are the effects when the man tries to remove God from the world.

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This video is the testimony of a `very special theatrical activities. During this stage, in fact, takes place in Sderot, the city `s only a democratic country and bombed daily therapeutic function for children and adolescents.

the Italian media, there is a regular cover that is taking place in Gaza, while there is almost no trace of that which is happening in Sderot, which lies a few miles from the Strip.

Sderot, our media, it looks like a ghost town, insignificant, while is the demonstration that normal people can be the primary source of hope and the first bulwark in the fight against Islamist fanaticism nihilist.

Sderot has a population of about 24,000 inhabitants, with a very high percentage of young people: more than 35% of the population has, in fact, less than 19 years.

Of these, almost all (about 90% by an average of several studies on the subject) suffer from post traumatic emotional disorders, due to the continuous state of war in which they occur.

sisntomi The most recurrent of these children who live in this constant state of anxiety are: difficulty sleeping, nightmares, regressions of behavioral development as wanting to stay always with the mother or wet the bed, afraid to go out of casa.D `other part is impossible not to have symptoms of stress, when more times a day you have only fifteen seconds to try to reach the refuge, from the moment the siren warns that a rocket is coming '.

Initially, children may even be a game but, when in less than four years (in 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza `) such event occurs for more than 7000 times, they themselves become the band most affected by the emotional disorders.

This post-traumatic stress inevitably involves continuous relationship difficulties, loss of self-confidence, excessive shyness.

why the community of Sderot has developed a theater program supported by expert psychologists that allows children and adolescents to be in the theater their life experiences and those dela community. In this way regain trust, forge personal relationships, daily exorcise fears.

Sderot, is truly a "phenomenon" that should be studied, because exists a demonstration of the strength inherent in ` vita.Nonostante love for the bombing continued, in fact, people do not fall and the city has more than 50% of the population under 30 years. These people do not lose hope, do not give up living life and not lose the `humankind. In fact, do not destroy morally and ethically children instilling a` metaphysical hatred toward those who fired the missiles, but try to retrieve them, to make him live a life more normal as possible, making him overcome the trauma with the `school activities.

L `Sderot and there is even more remarkable when you consider that only a kilometer away there is` the Gaza Strip.

In Gaza, under Hamas rule instead of `teach children to love life to build a future` s taught through books and cartoons, which is glorious and just blow themselves up killing as many as possible of the innocent.

At school, where you should train people, it `s shows that those who live only a mile away have no right to exist 'because they are evil in their essence and therefore can only be killed.

While Sderot Gaza citizens live with dignity in poverty reigns `corruption, lack of freedom.

The Why this difference between the two cities is from my point of view one.

In Gaza there is `a closed society based on fear, hatred and where people are instilled a value that goes against the nature of man` and `what` s love for death.

A Sderot there is `an open society based on the love for life, the protection of the weak, the commitment to give a future to their children.

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How Reagan won the Cold War (5)

was this the meaning of the visit of Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate June 12, 1987 , during which demanded that Gorbachev demonstrated the seriousness of its intentions and broke down the Berlin Wall.

And in May 1988 spoke before the statue of Lenin in Moscow University the most vibrant defense of the free society has never given to the people Soviet. During that trip he visited the ancient monastery of Danilov and extolled the value of religious freedom. American Embassy, \u200b\u200bassured a group of dissidents on the day of freedom was close. All these initiatives were intended to force Gorbachev's hand.

First, Gorbachev agreed to a profound unilateral reduction of Soviet forces in Europe. Beginning in May 1988, Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter, Soviet soldiers began to withdraw even from Angola, Cambodia and Ethiopia. In Eastern Europe, left the race to freedom and the Berlin Wall came down.

Throughout that time, Gorbachev's great achievement, for which will be remembered by history, was to not use force, as was his predecessors had done before the popular uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Now Gorbachev and his government not only allowed the dissolution of the empire, but began to speak just as the Reagan .

In October 1989 the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov announced that the Soviet Union would not interfere with the internal politics of the Eastern Bloc nations. "The Brezhnev Doctrine is dead," Gerasimov said. With reporters who asked him what would have been replaced, Gerasimov said, "You know Frank Sinatra's song My Way? Here, Hungary and Poland are proceeding in this way. We have the Sinatra doctrine". The same Reagan could have used better words. Finally, the revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself.

Gorbachev, who had completely lost control of events, she found herself excluded from

power. The Soviet Union voted in favor of herself. Would have been problems of adjustment to new conditions, but the liberated people knew that these problems are clearly preferable to life in slavery.

Even some of those who had been critical of Reagan were forced to admit that its policies had been right.

Henry Kissinger said that while Bush was to attend the final disintegration of the Soviet empire, "is Ronald Reagan's presidency was to mark the turning point. "Cardinal Casaroli, the Vatican secretary of state, said reset decided by Reagan, whom he had opposed, had led to the collapse of communism. These conclusions are widely shared in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

When Czech President Vaclav Havel has visited Washington in May 1997, I asked him if the defense strategy and Reagan's diplomacy had been crucial to the end of the Cold War. Havel replied in the affirmative, adding that "both Reagan and Gorbachev should be attributed to merit "because Soviet Communism, as sooner or later destined to collapse," without them we would have taken much longer. "Havel's words are indisputable. But Reagan and Gorbachev won has lost. If Gorbachev was the trigger, Reagan was the one who pushed him. For the third time in the twentieth century, the United States fought and won in a world war. In the Cold War, Reagan was our Churchill: it was his vision and his leadership to lead us to victory.

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Reagan, like Margaret Thatcher, knew suffered to that Gorbachev was a different man from the other Soviet leaders. They were small details to make him understand. He found that Gorbachev had a great curiosity about the West and a particular interest in everything that he told him to Hollywood. Gorbachev also had a sense of humor and could laugh at himself. Moreover, he was troubled by the definition of "evil empire" by Reagan earlier date. For Reagan it was significant that the idea of \u200b\u200bcontrolling an empire of evil upset Gorbachev. In addition, Reagan was struck by the fact that Gorbachev was a regular reference to God and Jesus Christ in his public statements and in interviews. When asked if his reforms had good chance to succeed, Gorbachev responded: "Only Jesus Christ can answer that question." These words could be regarded as a mere rhetorical device, but Reagan was not.

When in 1985, in Geneva, sat down at the negotiating table, however, Reagan saw that Gorbachev was a partner firm and resolute, and he used a tone that can be described as "rude friendly ". While the announcements by the State Department declared that the U.S. concerns the influence "destabilizing" the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Reagan faced head-on Gorbachev "What we're doing in Afghanistan is to burn villages and kill children," he said. "And 'genocide, Mike, and you who have the duty to stop it." At this point, said Kenneth Adelman, an aide to Reagan attended the meeting, Gorbachev looked at him with dazed expression: Adelman realized that no one had ever spoken in these terms to the Soviet leader. Reagan even threatened Gorbachev: "We will not allow you to maintain a military superiority over us," he said.

"can agree on arms reduction, or we can continue the arms race, which, I believe, you know very well that they can not win."

The attention paid to comments by Gorbachev, Reagan became evident in October 1986 at the summit of Reikyavik. Gorbachev stunned the Western establishment accepting Reagan's zero option and endorsing what the other doves were branded as totally unrealistic.

However Gorbachev poses one condition: the United States must agree not to proceed with deployment of missile defense.

But Reagan refused. The press immediately rushed to the attack. Here's the headline in the Washington Post: "The summit Reagan-Gorbachev fails stranded on the rock of SDI. "Sunk by Star Wars," read the cover of Time. For Reagan, however, the Strategic Defense Initiative was much more than a bargaining chip, it was a moral issue. Reikyavik In a televised statement from the chairman said: "It was not possible for me to tell the American people that the government does not intend to protect them from the risk of atomic destruction." Surveys show that most Americans had with him. Reikyavik said Margaret Thatcher, was the turning point in the Cold War. Gorbachev had finally realized that I had a choice: to continue an arms race without chance of victory that would destroy the Soviet economy, or give up the fight for global supremacy, to establish peaceful relations with the West and work to make the Russian economy as prosperous Western economies. After Reikyavik, Gorbachev decided for the latter. In December 1987 he gave up his request "not negotiable" an abandonment of the project U.S. defense and went on a visit to Washington to sign the treaty on intermediate range nuclear weapons. For the first time in history the two superpowers agreed on the elimination of an entire class of nuclear weapons. Moscow even accepted a check in the territory, which in the past had always refused. The hawks, however, were suspicious from the beginning.

According to them Gorbachev was a master of chess: he could sacrifice a pawn, but only to get a general advantage. "Reagan is running into a trap," warned Tom Bethell in the American Spectator in early 1985. "The only way they can succeed in the negotiations is doing what they want the Soviets." Republican senators like Jesse Helms and Steven Symms planned "killer amendments" to wreck the Strategic Defense Initiative. Yet, as some hawks now admit, these criticisms do not take the mark, Gorbachev was not just sacrificing a pawn, but he was losing the bishops and the queen.

The Treaty signed in Washington was actually the first step for the surrender of Gorbachev. Reagan understood that the Cold War was over the moment when Gorbachev came to Washington. In the U.S., Gorbachev had become a celebrity, and there was a large crowd to applaud him when he came down from the limousine to shake hands with people on the street. Out of the spotlight, Reagan had a dinner with a group of conservative friends, including Ben Wattenberg, Ane Georgie Geyer and R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. As he told me the same Wattenberg, everyone complained that Gorbachev received the same media all the credit for an agreement substantially on the terms decided by Reagan. Reagan smiled. Wattenberg asked, "We won the Cold War?". Reagan niche. Wattenberg insisted: "Well, we won, yes or no?". Reagan finally said yes. At that time everybody understood: Reagan that Gorbachev had wanted his day of glory. When the press asked him if he felt overshadowed by Gorbachev, Reagan replied: "Dear God, I was once again starred with Errol Flynn." To fully appreciate his cunning intelligence and diplomatic you should be aware that Reagan was following its policy, rejecting the advice of the hawks and the doves that. Reagan knew that the reform movement was weak, and that the Kremlin's hard not wait to U.S. initiatives to counter the action of Gorbachev. Reagan understood the importance of giving Gorbachev a space of action for continuing its reform program. At the same time, when the doves of the State Department asked Reagan to "reward" Gorbachev with economic concessions and commercial advantages for its announcement of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, Reagan understood that in this manner runs the risk of Healing fully bear ill.

Reagan's goal was, as he once said the same Gorbachev, to bring the Soviet Union to the brink of the abyss and then convince her to take "one step forward." So Reagan supported Gorbachev's reform efforts and at the same time continued to exert a constant pressure to push it to act more quickly and deeply.

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But one thing was to imagine this happy state, another realization. When Reagan went to the White House, the Soviet bear was still arrogant and angry. Between 1974 and 1980 had succeeded, by the direct invasion or victory of his puppet, to incorporate ten countries into the Communist orbit: South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Grenada, Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Moreover, he built the most formidable nuclear arsenal in the world, with thousands of multiple-warhead missiles aimed against the United States. In the context of conventional forces, the Warsaw Pact had an overwhelming superiority over NATO. Finally, Moscow had recently deployed a new generation medium-range missiles, the giant SS-20, focused on European cities. Reagan simply did not respond to these alarming events, but worked out a comprehensive strategy to counter. Started a project reset to 1.5 trillion dollars, with the aim of attracting the Soviets in an arms race from which he strongly believed that the Russians could not come out winners. It was also decided to convince the Western alliance to accept the deployment of 108 Pershing-2 missiles and 464 cruise missiles to counter Soviet SS-20. At the same time, it gave up the negotiations for the reduction of armaments.

Indeed, proposed for the first time the two superpowers were to drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals. If the Soviets had withdrawn their SS-20, said the U.S. would have put the Pershing and Cruise. This was called the "zero option".

Then there was the so-called "Reagan Doctrine", which provided military support and material for indigenous movements fighting to overthrow the tyranny-Soviet. The Administration supported the insurgency in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Angola and Nicaragua. In addition, he collaborated with the Vatican and the international section of American trade unions to support the Polish trade union Solidarnosc, despite the ruthless repression of the regime of General Jaruzelski. In 1983, U.S. troops invaded and liberated Grenada, Hunting the Marxist government and hold free elections. Finally, in March 1983, Reagan announced the "Strategic Defense Initiative," a new program of research and construction of missile defenses that, in the words of the same Reagan, promised to "render nuclear weapons obsolete." The strategy to counter Reagan was constantly denounced by the doves, who exploited the fear of public opinion, namely the fear that rearmament would be Reagan was taking the world to the brink of nuclear war. The zero option was branded by Strobe Talbott as "completely unrealistic. "With the exception of support for the Afghan mujahedin, every effort to help the rebels was hindered by anti-doves in Congress and the media. The Strategic Defense Initiative was adopted by the New York Times as" a transposition of the imagination in politics ".

The Soviet Union are equally hostile to the Reagan counteroffensive, but he understood very best of American doves its true objectives. The newspaper Izvestiya protested:" The Americans want to force us to a race arms even more costly and disastrous. "The Secretary General Yuri Andropov asserted that the Reagan defense program was" an attempt to disarm the Soviet Union. "The expert diplomat Andrei Gromyko said that" behind all these lies, lies the clear calculation that the USSR will exhaust its material resources and will therefore be forced to surrender. "

These statements are important because they define the context under which the rise to power of Gorbachev in early 1985. Gorbachev was indeed a new type of Soviet leader, but few have asked why he was elected by the old guard. The main reason is that the Politburo had realized that the old policies had failed. Reagan, in other words, seems to have had the substance to cause a nervous breakdown that prompted Moscow to seek a new approach. The appointment of Gorbachev is not only to find a new way to solve the country's economic problems but also to address the setbacks from the USSR and abroad.

For this Ilya Zaslavsky, a member of the Soviet People's Congress, said that the real creator of perestroika and glasnost was not Gorbachev but Reagan. Gorbachev aroused extraordinary enthusiasm in the left and the media in the West. Mary McGrory, the Washington Post, was convinced that "he had in his pocket instructions to save the planet." Gail Sheehy was dazzled by her "luminous presence." In 1990 Time magazine proclaimed him "a man of the decade" and compared him to Franklin Roosevelt. Just as Roosevelt had turned to save capitalism, socialism, as Gorbachev had reinvented to make it survive. The reason for this embarrassing infatuation is that Gorbachev was just the kind of leader that Western intellectuals admire more: a top reformer who presented himself as a liberal, a technocrat who spoke three hours of speeches describing the results of agricultural planning . Above all, the new Soviet leader was trying to realize the great hope of Western intelligentsia: Communism with a human face! A socialism that works! However, as Gorbachev discovered the same, and as we all now know, was not a viable hope. The defects that Gorbachev sought to eradicate from the system proved to be integral features of the system. If Reagan was the Great Communicator, Gorbachev has finally proved, said Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Great Fraintenditore. Gorbachev should not be compared to FDR but Jimmy Carter. Tough Guys of the Kremlin who warned that his reforms would cause the collapse of the entire system were right. Indeed, even the hawks in the West have had their triumph of Communism was indeed unchangeable and irreversible in the sense that the system could be reformed only with its destruction. Gorbachev, like Jimmy Carter, had a positive quality: it was an honest and open minded. It 'was the first Soviet leader from the post-Stalin generation, the first to admit openly that the promises of Lenin were not realized.

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How Reagan won the Cold War. (2)

Reagan created what Henry Kissinger calls "the most stunning diplomatic success of our time. "Or, as Margaret Thatcher said," Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a single shot. "Reagan had a vision of Soviet communism much more skeptical than that of the doves and hawks. In 1981 In a speech delivered at the University of Notre Dame, said, "The West will not only contain communism, it will transcend. If they get rid as a bizarre chapter in human history, even before they are written the last pages. "The next year, speaking before the British Parliament, Reagan said that if the Western alliance remained strong it would start" a march toward freedom and democracy that would leave Marxism-Leninism in the ashes of history. "

These prophetic statements (then branded as empty rhetoric) raise a question in mind: how did you know that Reagan Soviet communism was on the brink of the precipice where the finest minds of the time did not have the slightest idea what could happen? To answer this question, the best thing is to start with the same lines of Reagan. Throughout his life , Reagan had collected a large number of stories and jokes that he was referring to the Russian people. In one is an old man who enters in a shop in Moscow and asks for a kilo of meat, a pound of butter and half a pound of coffee. "We've sold out," replies the clerk of the store, the man leaves. Another person, who had witnessed the scene, the clerk says: "That old man must be crazy," "Yes," replies the salesman, "but that memory." In another there is a Russian who enters a car dealership to buy a car. He is told he must pay now, but it will take ten years before being able to pick up the car. After completing all modules and performed all the necessary formalities, and payment of the car, the officer tells him: "Come back in ten years to collect it." He then asks: "Morning or afternoon?" "That's ten years from now, who cares?" Replies the official. "In the morning I wait for the plumber."

Reagan could go on for hours and hours. What is striking, however, is that Reagan's jokes were not related to the evils of communism, but his incompetence. Reagan agreed with the hawks that the Soviet experiment to create a "new man" was immoral. At the same time, he was convinced that it was also basically stupid. Reagan did not need a PhD in economics to recognize that any economy based upon centralized planners who decide what the factories should produce, how much people should consume and how they should be assigned the social rewards is intended for a disastrous failure.

For Reagan the Soviet Union was a "bear ill" and the question was not if it were dropped, but when. However, if the Soviet Union had a shaky economy, but had a powerful military. No one doubted that the Soviet missiles, if launched against American targets, would have caused appalling destruction. But Reagan also knew that the Evil Empire was spending at least 20 percent of its GDP on defense. So Reagan elaborated the idea that the West could use its superior economic resources of a free society to force Moscow to make excessive spending in the arms race, resulting in unsustainable pressure on the Soviet regime.

Reagan formulated his theory of 'sick bear "as early as May 1982, in a speech to Eureka College, where he said:

" The Soviet empire is faltering because rigid centralized control has destroyed incentives for innovation, efficiency and individual ambition. Despite its social and economic problems, the Soviet dictatorship has built the largest army in the world. He did never mind the human needs of its people and in the end this choice scardinerà the foundations of the Soviet system. "

Bears sick, however, can be very dangerous because they tend to attack. For the Furthermore, as we are actually talking about men and not animals, there is also the matter of pride, the leader of an empire internally weak do not passively accept erosion of their power.

usually turn to the first source of their power: the military.

Reagan was convinced that the policy of appeasement would have only increased the appetite of the bear, pushing it to new aggressions. So he agreed with the anti-communist strategy, according to which they had to deal decisively with the Soviets. But he had much more confidence than they had the hawks in the ability of Americans to face the challenge. "We must realize," he said in his first inaugural address, "that no weapon in any arsenal in the world has the same strength of will and moral courage of men and women of a free country. "

The most revolutionary character of the thought of Reagan was that he did not accept the axiom of the immutability Soviet Union. In a time when no one else was able to do so, Reagan dared to imagine a world in which the communist regime of the Soviet Union there was no more

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How Ronald Reagan won the Cold War

This article was written by Dinesh Souza in National Review, in 1997.Lo divided into four parts.

It is a beautiful article that, in these days while you try to change the history of those years, for example by giving the license winner to Gorbachev and Reagan and Wojtyla you forget, remember some truth.

First shows how liberals were against communism that now have the same attitudes towards of Islam, and had once against nazismo.Il appeasement.Evidenzia all be summed up as Ronald Reagan was a staunch anti-communist but not a fanatic, incapable of understanding when to change tactics.

Highlight as Gorbachev was the perfect man for the `elite` occidentlai ogdevano that the benefits of the capitalist system but that they loved in `East Europe continues to dominate the bad.

Remember, The importance of the "white telephone" between the Holy See and the White House, in `a breakthrough in fundamental Communist totalitarian monolith. Remember

finally coem `s aggressive rhetoric of Reagan, the he said the truth about communism, has strengthened the Russian dissidents.

Ten years ago, Ronald Reagan, facing the Brandenburg Gate, said: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you really want peace, prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and liberalization, come before this door. Open this gate, Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall! ". Not long after, the wall crumbled to pieces and one of the most formidable empires in history collapsed so quickly that, in the words of Vaclav Havel," there was not even time to wonder. "With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the most ambitious social and political experiment of modern times ended in failure, and ended the supreme political drama of the twentieth century: the conflict between the free West and the East totalitarian. What will be probably the most important historical event of our times has already happened.

Considering all this, is natural to wonder what caused the destruction of Soviet communism. Yet, oddly, is a topic that nobody seems willing to discuss. This reluctance is particularly strong among intellectuals . Just think about what happened June 4, 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev spoke before students and professors at Stanford University. The Cold War was over, he said, and the audience applauded with great sense of relief.

Then Gorbachev added, "And let's not argue about who has won." At this point the audience stood up. He set off a thunderous applause.

was understandable that Gorbachev wanted to avoid this topic. But why even the obvious winners of the Cold War were equally refractory to celebrate their victory or to analyze how it was obtained? Perhaps the reason is simply this: the Soviet Union, almost all wrong.

The doves and the advocates of appeasement did not understand anything. For example, in 1983, when Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire", Anthony Lewis, The New York Times, was so outraged that sifted all his vocabulary seeking the most appropriate adjective "simplistic," "sectarian "," dangerous "," outrageous. " eventually chose "primitive: the only word for it."

the mid-eighties, Strobe Talbott, then of Time magazine journalist and later the State Department official in the Clinton administration, wrote: "Reagan is counting on technological supremacy and economic American to win ", whereas" the Soviet Union had learned to live with a permanent, institutionalized crisis. "

The historic Barbara Tuchman argued that instead of employing a policy of confrontation, the West had to ingratiate himself with the Soviet Union by using the "tactics of the turkey stuffing: in other words, provide all the grain and consumer goods they need." If Reagan had followed this advice in 1982, today 's Soviet Empire would probably still alive . Hawks and included anti- much better the nature of totalitarianism, and included the need for a policy of rearmament as a deterrent to Soviet aggression. But they also believed that Soviet communism was a lifelong opponent and virtually indestructible.

This gloomy pessimism spengleri flavor echoes the famous words spoken in 1948 by Whittaker Chambers before the Un-American Activities Committee when he said, abandoning communism, "was leaving the deployment winning move in one of the losers. " The hawks did not even understand what steps were necessary to determine the final dismantling the Soviet empire. During the years of his second term, when Reagan supported the reform efforts of Gorbachev and signed agreements for arms reduction, many conservatives denounced his apparent change of course. "Ignorant and pathetic" With these words, Charles Krauthammer called the behavior of Reagan. William F. Buckley Jr. urged Reagan to reconsider his opinion on the regime to Gorbachev: "healthy as if it was no longer the evil empire is the same thing to change our opinion about Adolf Hitler." George Will complained that Reagan had "accelerated the moral disarmament of the West by elevating wishful thinking to the level of political philosophy."

Nobody likes that their skills are challenged, but the doves just can not admit that they were a mistake and that Reagan was right. Therefore this group in recent years has made great efforts to rewrite history. There is no mystery about the fall of the Soviet Union, say the revisionists: suffered from chronic economic problems and collapsed under its own weight. "The Soviet system was dissolved and fell apart for his own shortcomings and structural defects," writes Strobe Talbott, "and not because of anything done by the outside world." According to Talbott, "the threat Soviet is not what it once seemed. Indeed, the real point is that there was never a threat. The doves, in the great debate of the last forty years, had always right " .

Meanwhile, the" extreme militarization "built by Reagan and hard at the Pentagon, insists George Kennan , "has reinforced the same positions even in the Soviet Union." Far from accelerating the end of the Cold War, the politics of Reagan may have even delayed the conclusion. This analysis is striking, if only for the his audacity. The Soviet Union had actually serious economic problems. But because these problems would need to cause the end of the political regime? Historically it is a usual thing that nations pass through periods of economic recession, but the famine ol'arretratezza technological causes have not been sufficient to cause the collapse of a great empire. The Roman Empire survived the internal corrosion for centuries before being destroyed by the invasion of barbarian hordes. The Ottoman Empire continued to live as "the sick man of Europe" for generations, and finally fell only by the catastrophic defeat in the First World War.

Even the economic argument is able to explain why the Soviet empire has collapsed or because the collapse occurred at that precise moment. The revisionists say it happened, so it was inevitable. But if the collapse of the Soviet Union was so sure, because the revisionists have not been able to foresee it, and even proclaimed, to cite an article by Anthony Lewis in 1983 that the Soviet regime was "not going to disappear?

E 'equally difficult to argue that Gorbachev was the real architect of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev was undoubtedly a reformer and a completely new kind of leader for the USSR. But he had no intention to lead the party, and the whole system, into the abyss.

So when the collapse occurred, the more surprised was he. He did not expect the least to be excluded from power, and is still absolutely outraged by the fact that they have obtained only one percent of the vote in 1996 elections.

The man who knew everything from the beginning was, at first glance, an unlikely statesman.

When he became the leader of the free world, had no experience in foreign policy. Some thought it was a dangerous warmonger, others considered him a good person, but a bit 'messy. However, this proved insignificant puppet of California have a deeper understanding of communism as that of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. To deal with the Soviet Union, this amateur worked out a complex strategy that almost none of his colleagues would approve or even understand the way down. Through a combination of imagination, tenacity, patience and ability to improvise.

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After savoring the defeat of the democratic elections of previous rounds, I can finally say!

Although the press has presented as a `hero, as the Messiah, as King Midas, Obama has so far only done bad things, and the first chance the Americans have him recalled.

start with foreign policy, although it would be better to lie on a veil.

Obama has pathetically tried to shift all the blame on the problems of the world 'to America, even denying the symbol of America as a symbol of democracy, seeking the `appeasement with dictators, invented a` Islam that does not exist.

About of Islam even Cardinal Martini, argued that the `moderate Islam is a peaceful minority material in relation to the Muslim majority, and how it can be presented as the real face of Islam only knows Obama.

He left the East to Europe `` Russian influence, has flirted with Chavez and Castro. `Well, the only thing I got is to kill more soldiers in Afghanistan and being lead by the nose by` Iran, North Korea, the fact Russia.Tutti have achieved something, leaving him with absolutely nothing in his hand.

not we consider the appointment of judges as anti-Christian David Hamilton (It was his first appointment) that would prohibit members of Indiana `d` invoke God and Jesus Christ, before starting work `d (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703031.html ), and tried to dismantle the state law that provides for the `d` obligation to inform women about the possibility of using solutions altternative `all` abortion.

not consider aid to organizations who use abortion as a method of `selection 'of humankind in the third world (changing the law of Regan and Bush junior)

Disregarding everything `remains, however, that in a year Obama is disocccupazione grew to record levels, the aid they have received only the big banks and Wall Street's society, (many of which its funding) and not the families and medium-sized enterprises which constitute over 90% of American companies. Add to this, finally, the health care proposal in which to save the soldiers veterans weights defined economic and social, are offered the possibility of assisted suicide, offer also available for over 65 ... Considering all that is inevitably the Democrats were destined to lose this round elettorale.Ora The only thing that Republicans do not have to do is split with `23 and` place in the district of the State of New York.

Winning the election of 2010 Obama turn into a `lame duck, they gain control of the rooms is too important for the future of` America.

To avoid that `America is not turned into a de-Christianized European social democracy.

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