Ulcéré par l'exploitation politicienne des attentats du 11/09/2001 à New York, le chroniqueur du New York Times Paul Krugman (prix Nobel de l'économie) a lâché une bombe sous forme d'un post dans son blog dans le New York Times sous le titre "The Years of Shame" (voir texte ci-dessous). Il a notamment accusé Bernie Kerik (ancien patron de la police de NY), Rudy Giuliani (ancien maire de NY) et George W. Bush d'être de faux héros qui se sont précipités pour profiter des attentats politiquement et financièrement. Ces attentats ayant notamment servi de prétexe pour lancer une propagande mensongère en vue de l'invasion de l'Irak.
Paul Krugman a conclu en disant que la mémoire des attentats du 11/09/2001 a été sali et est devenue une occasion pour la honte.
Des propos sévères qui ont enragés les parasites de la droite américaine qui se sont déchaînés contre lui en le traitant de tous les noms dans la presse, la télé et la radio!
The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.
Paul Krugman a conclu en disant que la mémoire des attentats du 11/09/2001 a été sali et est devenue une occasion pour la honte.
Des propos sévères qui ont enragés les parasites de la droite américaine qui se sont déchaînés contre lui en le traitant de tous les noms dans la presse, la télé et la radio!
The Years of Shame
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.
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