FLASH
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The politics of the "living dead", when the architects of war reappear on the scene...
One of the side effects of this global crisis is the feeling that we are living through a remake of "Night of the Living Dead," George A. Romero's cult film from 1968.
In the very year when people thought they could achieve the impossible and change the world, that visionary director warned us that the dead would come back to eat us alive. In fact, the original title of the film was “The Flesh Eaters,” (human flesh, of course).
There are those who are never completely buried; there is always a hand sticking out of the grave. I think of John Bolton, a consummate “flesh eater.” A man who, during his career, as both US ambassador to the UN and national security adviser, has supported, more or less in succession: regime change in Iran, Syria, and Libya; the invasion of Iraq; attacked the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague because it was not sufficiently willing to accept US orders; opposed the International Criminal Court; opposed the universal moratorium on the death penalty adopted at the UN; and even the UN itself, where he later went to serve as ambassador, threatening to block its budget if certain reforms desired by the US were not adopted.
Bolton, who bears political responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths, not to mention disastrous American policy decisions, is still out there trying to explain it to the world, as if he were ever right about anything.
There is also a positive side: Bolton, outside of a few neoconservative circles, is not given much attention by anyone. But think of Tony Blair, or more precisely Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, and in that role responsible, along with George W. Bush, for the invasion of Iraq.
It is well known what a campaign of lies was organized to convince the public that Iraq was full of weapons of mass destruction. When the disaster had already occurred and no chemical or biological weapons were found, Blair declared that he had been deceived by the intelligence services and advisers.
After leaving office, Blair was appointed special envoy for Middle East peace by the UN, EU, US and Russia. He spent years in this role from 2007 to 2015, during which time Hamas took control of Gaza and Israel launched three military offensives in the Gaza Strip.
Blair then returned to his true calling: speaking and business. Through the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, he receives significant funding from governments and big business figures such as Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle.
Blair remains a figure who enjoys sympathy in some American circles. Thus, the "flesh eater" who became famous in Iraq has returned to the scene once again, this time in projects related to ideas for the future of Gaza.
And as is often the case, one “living dead” brings another. This is where José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004, comes into play. He is remembered for many things, including the famous photograph of the meeting in the Azores on March 16, 2003, where George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Aznar and Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso gathered to issue an ultimatum to Iraq.
Aznar has been described by the American magazine Foreign Policy as “one of the five worst former prime ministers in the world.” Among his controversial statements was that the election of an African-American as US president would bring “economic disaster.”
However, today Aznar continues to be interviewed and comment on international developments. He has stated that in the case of Iran, "the worst outcome would be to stop now," adding that the work must be "finished."
The idea is that a “new order in the Middle East ” must be created. An order that, according to critics, seems to be built by destroying Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran and any prospect for Palestine.
However, the return of these "living dead" of politics should not be taken lightly. If they return with such confidence, it is because they feel they have support and that they can emerge again despite the mistakes of the past.
They are a kind of thermometer of the times, showing that the temperature of international politics is again very high. And perhaps it is good to be vigilant. Because, if history repeats itself, the “living dead” may return again. / Adapted from “Inside Over”
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