La Repubblica delle Banane

Cito da Camillo:

Perché oggi Repubblica ha pubblicato il bell'articolo di Michael Ignatieff tagliando i primi due paragrafi e il finale?

Forse perché i due paragrafi iniziali (mancanti) sono questi?



"The election in Iraq is without precedent. Never, not even in the dying days of Weimar Germany when Nazis and Communists brawled in the streets, has there been such a concerted attempt to destroy an election through violence -- with candidates unable to appear in public, election workers driven into hiding, foreign monitors forced to ''observe'' the election from a nearby country, actual voting on election day a gamble with death in at least 4 of the 18 provinces and the only people voting safely the fortunate expatriates and exiles in foreign countries.

Just as depressing as the violence in Iraq is the indifference to it abroad. Americans and Europeans who have never lifted a finger to defend their own right to vote seem not to care that Iraqis are dying for the right to choose their own leaders".



Forse perché il finale è questo?



"Let us have the decency to support people who are fighting for a free election, and let us have the honesty not to blame them for our own incompetence if they fail. There is still no reason to assume they will".

Io toglierei il "forse". Vergogna su di loro - ancora una volta.