The War in Iraq is the central and most sensitive question of these strange American elections (for an European), where the most absurd voices are opposed to the most obvious reasons. I am sure the racial or religious problem is secondary in these elections, if not quite irrelevant. The primary problem is the historical destiny of the United States. And the destiny of this great country is the destiny of the World. So I think it necessary to have a clear idea (from my European point of view), based on the reality and not on the demagogical fantasies of American liberals and European leftists, of this “strange” War.
From the military point of view the Iraqi war was perhaps the easiest of all the wars in the history of the United States, and nevertheless, it provoked more resistance everywhere than any other. And not because it was a “mistaken” war; on the contrary, it was absolutely right and necessary, lead with a mastery that not very often has been seen in contemporary history. There must be not confounded, as mass media do, the war in strict sense, fought and won in little more than two weeks, and the terrorist guerrilla of post-war period, that still lasts and that was always particularly difficult for a regular army.
In Northern Ireland it lasted more than forty years with almost four thousand dead, mainly civil, and it was extinguished rather because the terrorist groups lost their “social base” than by the military action. But Americans have demonstrated their effectiveness and, above all, political wisdom also in this “war without rules”, organizing the new Iraqi army and assuring free elections. Clausewitz would be ecstatic before this military and political capacity of the Americans. In effect, war becomes inevitable, like a surgical operation, when the “ordinary medicine” of pure politics works no longer, creating a new context that allows politic to follow its course again.
From the historical point of view its consequences can be compared only with those of the II World War, which created a new order based in the separated “spheres of influences”. The dismantling of the Soviet Union finished off this system of “balances”, quite fluctuating, by the way. The nations had to find a new equilibrium or direction in order to continue their historical existence and no to be lost in the labyrinth of the time without exit and end. In effect, time is not a simple “physical quantity”, but a creation of the man, that is to say, only the historical time is real.
From the political point of view, for those who have been witnesses of the evolution of the last 20 years, the change produced by the Iraqi war appears still more radical, because it has concluded definitively the era of coexistence with the dictatorships, that are impenetrable, except for crime and putrefaction, like a dense and dark matter, to all vivifying movement. The dismantling of two monstrous and irremediably criminal regimes, like those of the talibans and of Saadam Hussein, has created new democracies, reinforced the existing ones, and not only in the Middle East, but also in the Eastern Europe, causing contemporarily the weakening of dictatorships that still remain and try desperately to counteract and to resist the extension of the democratic sphere.
And, on the contrary, the lack of American military response after the terrorist attack of the 11 of September would have flooded Europe and the United States with terrorism, and not only Islamic, but also “revolutionary”, constantly awaiting propitious occasion to resume its destructive action; it would have reinforced the criminal regimes, weakened the existing democracies and suffocated the new ones. This is the unique and main reason that provoked the protest of the “pacifists” and “liberals”, who have always collaborated with all totalitarian regimes of the worse kind, without hiding their irrational hatred for democracy. In effect, all these protests had an only aim: to prevent the expansion of the democratic sphere, that can happen only under the American sign, because the American democracy is the only one that has a true universal vocation, and for that reason no reactionary force, represented by all dictatorial regimes, can stop its march to freedom.
In our time the most reactionary force is Islamism in all its forms, radical and “moderate”. That is why the Afganian and Iraqi Wars were true revolutionary ones, like the American War of Independence, and George W. Bush is the only true revolutionary President, like the great Commander-in-Chief George Washington. In this historical context, one vulgar megalomaniac, like Obama who preaches tolerance and peace with the criminal Islamofascist and communist dictatorships, these by-products of the History, can only disappear in the Nought from where he came out.
M.E.
