El presidente Obama explica su predilección por la “política de compromiso” en vez de la “política de aislamiento” en su enfoque para la “política exterior”. Este video es un fragmento de la entrevista del Presidente Obama con el periodista Thomas L. Friedman. Abril 5, 2015.
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Trascripción
00:05 - you've knocked down a wall with Burma 00:07 - you knocked down a bigger wall of Cuba 00:10 - and potentially you're going to knock 00:11 - down a really big wall with Iran I 00:14 - actually started as a journalist in 1979 00:17 - I realized my whole career has only been 00:18 - defined by hostility and from my whole 00:20 - generation in this relationship I feel 00:23 - like underneath there is a bit of an 00:25 - Obama doctrine in there and it's take 00:28 - care of all the strategic concerns 00:29 - satisfy them as much as you can but you 00:32 - you do believe that the engagement is 00:36 - possible that that engagement can lead 00:39 - to different outcomes that are 00:40 - unpredictable you know in advance can it 00:44 - do I have that right well how do you see 00:46 - it you know what I'd combine it with 00:48 - though tom is also a sense that we are 00:53 - powerful enough to be able to test these 00:55 - propositions without putting ourselves 00:57 - at risk that's interesting and and and 00:59 - and that's the thing that sometimes as I 01:02 - hear these debates going on people don't 01:05 - seem to understand you take some country 01:08 - like Cuba for us to test the possibility 01:15 - that engagement leads to a better 01:18 - outcome for the Cuban people there 01:21 - aren't that many risks for us too it's a 01:24 - tiny little country it's it's not one 01:28 - that threatens our core security 01:31 - interests and so for us to test the 01:36 - proposition and if it turns out that it 01:40 - doesn't lead to better outcomes we can 01:42 - adjust our policies the same is true 01:45 - with respect to Iran a larger country a 01:47 - dangerous country one that has engaged 01:50 - in activities that result in the death 01:51 - of US citizens but the truth the matter 01:54 - is Iran's defense budget is 30 billion 01:57 - dollars our defense budget is closer to 02:02 - six hundred billion dollars 02:04 - Iran understands that they cannot fight 02:06 - us and you believe they are determined 02:08 - it's nothing that they're under turrible 02:10 - is simply not the case and and so the so 02:13 - for us to say let's try understanding 02:17 - that we're preserving all our options 02:18 - that were not naive but if in fact we 02:23 - can resolve these issues diplomatically 02:25 - we are more likely to be safe more 02:28 - likely to be secured in a better 02:30 - position to protect our allies and who 02:33 - knows Iran may change if it doesn't art 02:36 - deterrence capabilities our military 02:39 - superiority stays in place so ill to to 02:42 - use a simple analogy it's not as if in 02:46 -all these conversations I'm leaving all 02:49 - my you know rifles that you know at the 02:54 - door we're walking these negotiations 02:56 - and everybody knows that we've got the 02:59 - most firepower and and and we're not 03:01 - relinquishing our capacity to defend 03:05 - ourselves or our allies in that 03:07 - situation why wouldn't we test it it and 03:11 - and now you know what you might hear 03:14 - from Prime Minister Netanyahu which 03:16 - which I respect is the notion look 03:19 - Israel's more vulnerable we don't have 03:21 - the luxury of testing these propositions 03:23 - the way you do and and I completely 03:28 - understand that and further I completely 03:30 - understand Israel's belief that given 03:33 - the tragic history of the Jewish people 03:35 - they can't be dependent solely on us for 03:38 - their own security but what I would say 03:41 - to them is that not only am I absolutely 03:46 - committed to making sure that they 03:49 - maintain their kwaliteit qualitative 03:51 - military edge and that they can before 03:54 - defer deter any potential future attacks 04:00 - but what I'm going to do is to make the 04:06 - kinds of commitments that would give 04:11 - everybody in the neighborhood including 04:14 - Iran clarity that if Israel were to be 04:19 - attacked by any state that we would 04:23 - stand stand by them and and that I think 04:27 - should be you've just made that 04:31 - commitment right now I mean that's a 04:32 - signal to them that should that should 04:34 - be sufficient to take advantage of this 04:44 - once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see 04:47 - whether or not we can at least take the 04:49 - nuclear issue off the table the one 04:52 - thing that changes the equation is when 04:55 - these countries get a nuclear weapon 04:57 - then how we approach countries 05:02 - necessarily changes you know witnessed 05:06 - North Korea which is a problem state 05:09 - that is rendered a lot more dangerous 05:15 - because of of their nuclear program if 05:17 - we can prevent that from happening in 05:19 - any place else in the world that's 05:23 - that's something where it's worth taking 05:25 - some risks 05:29 - Oh
Aspectos Notables
Es difícil ver este vídeo y no cagarse (literalmente) en la madre de Obama. Por una parte, tenemos el descaro, el jueguito politiquero de querer hacernos creer que todo va a salir bien, que ayudando a la “sociedad civil” cubana rodo se va a resolver, al menos ese era el enfoque que le estaban dando o más bien dictando desde el CFR, con aquella carta abierta del 2014.
Lo apabullante es lo que dice Obama:
00:48 –
“sabes Tom, también es el sentimiento de que somos suficientemente poderosos como para ser capaces de probar esas propuestas sin ponernos nosotros mismos en riesgo…”00:59 –
“y esta es la cosa, algunas veces cuando oigo esos debates, la gente parece que no entiende que tú tomas un país como Cuba con el que nosotros podemos probar esa posibilidad. Ese compromiso conduce a una mejor solución para el pueblo cubano. No hay muchos riesgos para nosotros tampoco. (Cuba) es un país pequeñísimo. No es uno que amenace nuestros interese fundamentales de seguridad. Así que para nosotros probar la propuesta, y si sucede que esto no conduce a una solución, nosotros podemos ajustar nuestras políticas…”
Es decir, la supuesta ayuda al pueblo cubano es pura demagogia y politiquería, pues al final el famoso proceso de apertura con los castros era un experimento, que podía salir mal, y en ese caso nada… el pueblo que se joda y los castros que sigan gozando la papeleta.
Todo esto también denota cierta estupidez política de los norteamericanos, acaso no se dan cuenta que la dictadura de los castros tiene más años que los que tienen muchos de ellos!?…
También es notable, que la llamada “Doctrina Obama” no busca derrotar o remover a los castros, sino a mantenerlos pero procurando una especie de deshielo en las relaciones que permita circunvenir la “Ley Helms-Burton” y propiciar inversiones norteamericanas en la isla, tal como se propone a Obama en la carta abierta del CFR.
Así que, sí usted es un político y quiere entender cómo resolver el “Caso Cubano”, pues entonces le recomendamos que vea: HELP CUBA (Español) – (Inglés). En resumen, la mejor manera de ayudar al pueblo cubano a alcanzar “LA LIBERTAD” y hacer que esta perdure, es RESTITUYENDO LA CONSTITUCIÓN DE 1940. Solo eso se necesita, no hay que hacer pruebas a costa del sufrimiento del pueblo cubano.
Referencias
[1] The White House – Un nuevo rumbo para Cuba
Estamos separados por 90 millas de agua, pero estamos unidos por medio de relaciones compartidas y el deseo de promover la democracia, prosperidad y estabilidad en Cuba. El Presidente Obama está tomando medidas para deshacerse de las políticas fallidas del pasado, y comenzar un nuevo curso de relaciones de EE. UU con cuba que harán participar y empoderarán a los cubanos.
El 20 de marzo, el Presidente y la Primera Dama viajaron a La Habana, Cuba en sus continuos esfuerzos para reunir y fortalecer al pueblo cubano.
https://youtu.be/CEDzfIy_K1s
[2] The Atlantic – The Obama Doctrine
[3] The New York Times – What is the Obama Doctrine?
[4] BBC Mundo – Las contradicciones de la «doctrina Obama»
