Ignacio Ruiz-Quintano: Akā ʻo Tony!

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ʻO ka hiʻohiʻona o ka manawa, ʻo ia ka hoʻopuka ʻana i nā ʻoiaʻiʻo ma ka ʻāʻī, pololei, wahi a D'Ors, kahi e lawe ai kēlā me kēia kanaka i kāna hoʻopaʻapaʻa.

-He mea hilahila, e Paco. He mea hilahila! Ua like me ka loaʻa ʻana o kahi hunchback - 'El Tigre de Chamberí' i hoʻokō e kala aku.

ʻO ia ka "Akā Tony!" ka mea i pakele ai i ka heluhelu ʻana e ola ana ʻo Tony Blair… a manaʻo ʻo ia he "ʻano hana ʻē" ka haʻi ʻana ʻaʻole mākou no ke kaua honua ʻekolu.

Ua alakaʻi ʻo Tony i ka poʻe Pelekania i ke kaua ʻelima mau manawa: hoʻouka kaua iā Saddam i '98, ma Kosovo i '99, ma Sierra Leone a me Afghanistan i 'XNUMX.

2000 a, ʻo ka mea nui loa, iā Iraq ma 2003, ʻo ia ka mea nāna i hoʻohuli iā mākou, me kāna kīpē ʻana i nā kūlanakauhale a me kāna wahi leʻaleʻa ma Abu Ghraib (ʻaʻole ia i ʻōlelo i kahi huaʻōlelo), ke kaua ʻaʻole mākou e loaʻa. kūʻai mai iā lākou, ʻaʻole hoʻi ʻo Bush, nāna i hoʻāʻo maikaʻi ʻole e hoʻopunipuni iā ​​​​John Paul II, a i ʻole ʻo Aznar, nāna i kāhea i ke kaua kūpono a me ke kula Salamanca, e like me kāna mau flabellifers i ʻōlelo ai. Pehea ʻo Tony i hoʻohiwahiwa ai iā mākou, inā ua like ʻo ia me ka manu koraka o ka ventriloquist Moreno? ʻO ka 'reductio ad hitlerum' i hana ʻia e Boris Johnson: "Ma o nā huaʻōlelo pōkole, ʻaʻohe huaʻōlelo, ʻaʻohe manaʻo grammatical, akā piha i ka mana manaʻo." ʻAe, e like me ke kopa Auseturia.

ʻO Tony ka naʻaupō pono o ka Cheney, Powell, Wolfowitz, Perle a me nā mea ʻē aʻe o ka neocon 'poʻeleʻele' (he kanahiku i kapa ʻia ʻo Harrington) mai ka hema paʻakikī nona ka hoʻoilina o ke kaua pale.

"ʻO wau wale nō kaʻu i ʻike i kaʻu mea i manaʻoʻiʻo ai," wahi a Tony (ʻo ia kāna hoʻopaʻapaʻa D'Orsian ma The Hague).

ʻO John Gray, ka mea nāna i hoʻopiʻi iā ia, mālama ʻo ia no Blair ʻo ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ka mea e lawelawe ai i kāna kumu: ʻo nā kumuhana o ka manawa nona nā ʻoiaʻiʻo mau loa a, e like me Bush, ua hāpai ʻo ia i nā pilina pili honua ma nā ʻōlelo theological. I kāna ʻōlelo ʻana e hoʻokolokolo ʻia kāna hoʻoholo e hoʻouka iā Iraq e ke Akua, ua pau kona kaulana. No ia, e lili mākou me ka neʻe nuklea.