tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304734602024-03-13T03:03:42.813+01:00The Daily SketchDavid Sketchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838032163864170821noreply@blogger.comBlogger390125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30473460.post-92229052002803212072013-08-31T11:38:00.000+02:002013-08-31T11:42:44.625+02:00Chomsky on the Media's Treatment of Atrocities (from Manufacturing Consent 1992) <div style="text-align: center;">
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"There are 3 kinds of atrocities: benign bloodbaths - which nobody cares about; constructive bloodbaths - which are the ones we like; and nefarious bloodbaths - which are the ones the bad guys do."<br />
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"You're responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. You're not responsible for the predictable consequences of someone else's actions. The most important thing for me and for you is to think about the consequences of your actions. What can you affect."<br />
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These are the things to keep in mind. They're not just academic exercises. We're not analysing the media on Mars or in the XVIII century or something like that. We're dealing with real human beings, who are suffering and dying, being tortured and starving because of policies we are involved in, we, as citizens of democratic societies, are directly involved in, and are responsible for, and what the media are doing is ensuring that we do not act on or responsibilities, and that the interests of power are served, not the interests of the people suffering, not even the needs of the American people, who would be horrified if they realised that the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way they're allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup) is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.</span></span></span></h1>
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television crew from Ireland’s Radio Telifís Éireann happened to be
recording a documentary about Chávez during the events of April 11,
2002.<br />
Shifting focus, they followed the events as they occurred.
During their filming, the crew recorded images of the events that contradict explanations given by Chávez opposition, the private
media, the US State Department, and then White House Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer.<br />
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"“<i>Women living under Saudi rule must wear the abaya, or total body
cloak, and niqab, the face veil; they have limited opportunities for
schooling and careers; they are prohibited from driving vehicles; are
banned from social contact with men not relatives, and all personal
activity must be supervised including opening bank accounts, by a male
family member or "guardian." These Wahhabi rules are <b>enforced by a
mutawiyin, or morals militia, also known as "the religious police</b>,"
officially designated the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) who patrol Saudi cities, armed with
leather-covered sticks which they freely used against those they
considered wayward. They raid homes looking for alcohol and drugs, and
harassed non-Wahhabi Muslims as well as believers in other faiths</i>.” "<br />
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It’s widely reported that the obscenely opulent and
morally-perhaps-not-entirely-of- the-highest-standards Saudi Royal
Family made a Faustian deal with Wahhabite leaders. The deal supposedly,
was that the Wahhabists are free to export their fanatical brand of
Islam around to the Islamic populations of the world in return for
agreeing to leave the Saudi Royals alone. There are, however, other dark and dirty spoons stirring the Wahhabite-Salafist Saudi stew.<br />
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Little known is the fact that the present form of aggressive Saudi
Wahhabism, in reality a kind of fusion between imported jihadi Salafists
from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and the fundamentalist Saudi
Wahhabites. Leading Salafist members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
were introduced into the Saudi Kingdom in the 1950’s by the CIA in a
complex series of events, when Nasser cracked down on the Muslim
Brotherhood following an assassination attempt. By the 1960’s an influx
of Egyptian members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia fleeing
Nasserite repression, had filled many of the leading teaching posts in
Saudi religious schools. One student there was a young well-to-do Saudi,
Osama bin Laden<br />
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During the Third Reich, Hitler Germany had supported the Muslim
Brotherhood as a weapon against the British in Egypt and elsewhere in
the Middle East. Marc Erikson describes the Nazi roots of the Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood thus:<br />
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<i>…as Italian and German fascism sought greater stakes in the Middle
East in the 1930s and ’40s to counter British and French controlling
power, close collaboration between fascist agents and Islamist leaders
ensued. During the 1936-39 Arab Revolt, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of
German military intelligence, sent agents and money to support the
Palestine uprising against the British, as did Muslim Brotherhood
founder and "supreme guide" Hassan al-Banna. A key individual in the
fascist-Islamist nexus and go-between for the Nazis and al-Banna became
the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini.</i><br />
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After the defeat of Germany, British Intelligence moved in to take
over control of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ultimately, for financial and
other reasons, the British decided to hand their assets within the
Muslim Brotherhood over to their CIA colleagues in the 1950s.<br />
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According to former US Justice Department Nazi researcher John Loftus, “<i>during
the 1950s, the CIA evacuated the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood to
Saudi Arabia. Now, when they arrived in Saudi Arabia, some of the
leading lights of the Muslim Brotherhood, like Dr Abdullah Azzam, became
the teachers in the madrassas, the religious schools. And there they
combined the doctrines of Nazism with this weird Islamic cult, Wahhabism</i>."<br />
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"<i>Everyone thinks that Islam is this fanatical religion, but it is not</i>,” Loftus continues. “<i>They
think that Islam—the Saudi version of Islam—is typical, but it’s not.
The Wahhabi cult has been condemned as a heresy more than 60 times by
the Muslim nations. But when the Saudis got wealthy, they bought a lot
of silence. This is a very harsh cult. Wahhabism was only practised by
the Taliban and in Saudi Arabia—that’s how extreme it is. It really has
nothing to do with Islam. Islam is a very peaceful and tolerant
religion. It always had good relationships with the Jews for the first
thousand years of its existence</i>."<br />
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Further reading:<br />
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Marc Erikson, "<a class="spip_out" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK08Ak03.html" rel="external">Islamism, fascism and terrorism (Part 2)</a>," <i>AsiaTimes.Online</i>, November 8, 2002.
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<i>Ibid.</i><br />
John Loftus, "<a class="spip_out" href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/loftus101106.htm" rel="external">The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al-Qaeda</a>," <i>Jewish Community News</i>, October 11, 2006.<br />
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This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It demonstrates the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force.
It documents and explains how the policy is based on the interest of major corporations and a tiny elite to increase profits and the United States governments own interests in maintaining and expanding it’s imperialistic influence.
Inside the United States this has been made possible with a propaganda of fear for the horrible enemies like the Soviet Union, Communists and so on and a love for “free markets”, “democracy”, “freedom” and so on.
Externally (and increasingly internally) this has caused massive poverty and suffering, genocide, war, coups, crushed unions and popular movements and environmental destruction.<br />
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The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary with two million views
broadcasted from Japan to Latin America, analyze the shifting of state
assets to private hands.<br />
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They travel round the world gathering data on
privatization in developed countries and search for clues on the day
after Greece’s massive privatization program.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">Resulta que en la década prodigiosa del pelotazo, cuando media España se lo llevaba caliente a casa, cuando un encofrador sin estudios se embolsaba tres mil euros, cuando hasta el último garrulo montaba una constructora y en connivencia con un par de concejales se forraba sin cuento, cuando un gañán que no sabía levantar tres ladrillos a derechas se paseaba en Audi, los funcionarios aguantaban y penaban. Nadie se acordaba de ellos. Eran los parias, los que hacían números para cuadrar su hipoteca, hacer la compra en el Carrefour y llegar a fin de mes, porque un nutrido grupo de compatriotas se estaba haciendo de oro inflando el globo de la economía hasta llegar a lo que ahora hemos llegado.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">Y ahora que el asunto explota y se viene abajo, la culpa del desmadre… es de los funcionarios. Los alcaldes, diputados y senadores que gobiernan la cosa pública a cambio de una buena morterada no son responsable de nada y nos apuntan directamente a nosotros: somos demasiados, hay que ultracongelarnos, somos poco productivos. Los responsables bancarios que prestaron dinero a quienes sabían que no podrían devolverlo tampoco se dan por aludidos. Todos los intermediarios inmobiliarios, especuladores, amigos de alcalde y compañeros de partida de casino de diputado provincial no tenían noticia del asunto. Nosotros sí. Como diría José Mota: ¿Ellos? No. ¿Nosotros? Si. Siendo así que ellos? No. Por tanto, nosotros? Si.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">La culpa, según estos preclaros adalides de la estupidez, es del juez, abogado del estado, inspector de hacienda, administrador civil del estado que, en lugar de dedicarse a la especulación inmobiliaria a toca teja, ha estado cinco o seis años recluido en su habitación, pálido como un vampiro, con menos vida social que una rata de laboratorio y tanto sexo como un chotacabras, para preparar unas oposiciones monstruosas y de resultado siempre incierto, precedidas, como no podía ser de otra forma, de otros cinco arduos años de carrera. Del profesor que ha sorteado destinos en pueblos que no aparecen en el mapa para meter en vereda a benjamines que hacen lo que les sale de los genitales porque sus progenitores han abdicado de sus responsabilidades. Del auxiliar administrativo del Estado natural de Écija y destinado en Barcelona que con un sueldo de 1000 euros paga un alquiler mensual de 700 y soporta estoicamente que un taxista que gana 3000 le diga joder, que suerte, funcionario.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">La culpa es nuestra. A poco que nos descuidemos nosotros los funcionarios seremos el chivo expiatorio de toda una caterva de inútiles, vividores, mangantes, políticos semianalfabetos, altos cargos de nombramiento digital, truhanes, pícaros, periodistas ganapanes y economistas de a verlas venir que sabían perfectamente que el asunto tarde o temprano tenía que petar, pero que aprovecharon a fondo el momento al grito de mientras dure dura! y que ahora, con esa autoridad que da tener un rostro a prueba de bomba, se pasan al otro lado del río y no sólo tienen recetas para arreglar lo que ellos mismo ayudaron a estropear, sino que, además, han llegado a la conclusión de que los culpables son... tachan...los funcionarios.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">Soy funcionario. Y además bastante recalcitrante: tengo cinco títulos distintos. Ganados compitiendo en buena lid contra miles de candidatos. ¿Y saben qué? No me avergüenzo de nada. No debo nada a nadie (sólo a mi familia, maestros y profesores). No tengo que pedir perdón. No me tocó la lotería. No gané el premio gordo en una tómbola. No me expropiaron una finca. No me nombraron alto cargo, director provincial ni vocal asesor por agitar un carnet político que nunca he tenido.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">Aprobé frente a tribunales formados por ceñudos señores a los que no conocía de nada. En buena lid: sin concejal proclive, pariente político, mano protectora ni favor de amigo. Después de muchas noches de desvelos, angustias y desvaríos y con la sola e inestimable compañía de mis santos cojones. Como tantos y tantos compañeros anónimos repartidos por toda España a los que ahora algunos mendaces quieren convertir, por arte de birli-birloque, en culpables de la crisis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">Amigos funcionarios, <b>estamos rodeados de gente <u>muy tonta y muy hija de puta</u></b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es">PD. Si alguien, en cualquier contexto, os reprocha -como es frecuente- vuestra condición de funcionario os propongo el refinado argumento que yo utilizo en estos casos,</span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"> <b><span style="color: #990000;">en memoria del gran Fernando Fernán-Gómez: váyase Usted a la mierda, hombre, a la puta mierda.</span></b></span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"></span><span lang="es"> </span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="es" style="font-family: inherit;">SI eres funcionario pásalo a toda España. Si no lo eres y no estas de acuerdo, ¡váyase usted a la mierda!</span></span></b></u><br />
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Dear Michael Spagat,<br />
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Many people have been wondering why you have such a bee in your bonnet about the Lancet Iraq Mortality Studies. I don't. Its pretty obvious to me. Your own conflict of interest and that of colleagues such as Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks is patently obvious.<br />
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In previous research papers such as "<a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/physics/papers/0605/0605035.pdf">Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism</a>", calculations and conclusions were made, based on data for civilian killings provided by: IBC! You are also intimately connected to CERAC (as is Dr. Hicks), whose own CERAC Integrated Iraq Dataset (CIID) "builds on the event description from three datasets that monitor violence in Iraq: Iraq Body Count , iCasualties and ITERATE." Further, the Dept. of Economics at the Royal Holloway, University of London, also uses IBC in its country specific datasets.<br />
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Let's be clear, using figures from an organization that itself admitted were an undercount of victims ("Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death has been reported. It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media") and then deleting figures from that undercount, as you did for example in the above mentioned paper, can only mean that the conclusions reached in these papers and indeed any other that used the IBC figures, have been seriously compromised, especially considering the numbers reported in the 2 Lancet studies. And this explains your mania with Lancet.<br />
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Apart from the conflict of interest, which you fail to mention in any of your work, you also have a strange tendency to attack any critics of the Colombian government of Uribe, connected in his early days in Medellín to the cocaine cartels, and recently to all sorts of human rights abuses. I wonder if the fact that some of your funding has come from Colombia's central bank: Banco de la República has anything to do with this, or is it simply an ideological thing?<br />
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In 2007 you took it upon yourself to attempt to discredit AI & HRW's reports on Colombia in your paper <a href="http://www.cerac.org.co/pdf/CERAC_WP_4.pdf">The Work of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch: Evidence from Colombia</a>. This work and your attempts to discredit these 2 NGOs is characterised by a clear attempt to reduce the figures of victims as well as attempting to muddy the waters regarding state complicity with the paramilitaries in the human rights atrocities in Colombia. This is comparable to the work of Holocaust deniers who look to reduce at all costs, the number of Jews killed in that horrific crime. As you yourself acknowledge "The free flow of accurate information on patterns of violence can make a critical contribution to conflict resolution. Yet warring parties tend to compete to distort the relevant information in their favor." One can see which warring party you are working for...<br />
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In "<a href="http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/pkte/126/Documents/Docs/Colombian%20Conflict,%20Uribe%20first%2017th%20months.pdf">The Colombian Conflict: Uribe's First 17 Months</a> (J. Restrepo and M. Spagat), CEPR Discussion Paper 4570, 2004" you stated: "paramilitary groups...neither belong to the institutional apparatus nor are under the command and control of the state" That has now been shown to have ignored the reality that there has been tight collaboration between both. Both AI & HRW challenged these suppositions and still do as their reply to your paper shows: "Recent revelations about the degree of paramilitary infiltration in various state institutions, including the security forces, the legislature, and the DAS appear only to have confirmed what AI and other NGOs have been saying publicly for years. In many cases, AI has found it difficult to separate security force from paramilitary responsibility in killings, since there is evidence of the involvement of both. In fact, in many cases in which the article might describe the evidence for collusion as being "soft", subsequent research and/or judicial investigations have corroborated AI’s initial claims."<br />
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As both HRW and AI reports challenged many of your basic assumptions, they too had to be discredited. However, as your work is based on false assumptions and inaccurate staistics, it is actually your work that should be discredited.<br />
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David Sketchley<br />
Seville, Spain<br />
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Needless to say, a reply was never received.<br />
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Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism -- the rapid-fire corporate re-engineering of societies still reeling from shock -- did not begin with September 11, 2001.<br />
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The film traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today.<br />
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New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, shock and awe warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.<br />
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The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.<br />
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Gonzalez "compartió sus preocupaciones sobre la gestión de la política exterior española en general del presidente Zapatero"<br />
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<pre>C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 BUCHAREST 001665
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<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html">SUBJECT: DNI NEGROPONTE MEETING WITH OPPOSITION PSD PRESIDENT MIRCEA GEOANA </a>
Classified By: Amb. Nicholas Taubman for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par1" id="par1">¶</a>1. (C) Summary: At a meeting with DNI Negroponte and the
Ambassador, opposition PSD head Mircea Geoana evinced concern
about a posssible post-EU accession malaise in Romanian
politics, with weak and divided governance for the next
several years. Geoana was skeptical about prospects for
early elections and favored creation of a "grand coalition"
of leading moderate parties on the German model. On
attitudes towards the U.S., Geoana said some "rebalancing"
between Romania's "transatlanticist" and "European"
orientations might take place, but geopolitics assured that
<b>Romania's fundamentally transatlanticist orientation was
"safe" for at least two more generations</b>. Geoana argued for a
regional solution to the Kosovo issue, noting that the
international community could move relatively fast on Kosovar
independence if it was linked to a renewed commitment to the
Balkan region as a whole. With EU entry for many Balkan
nations unlikely, NATO had to pick up the slack as default
"mentor" in the region. Geoana argued that Romania was
wasting an opportunity to work with new Eastern European
members of the EU in creating a new "Vilnius Group"
encompassing the Baltics to the Black Sea. On intelligence
matters, Geoana encouraged new links between Romanian
parliamentary committees overseeing the intelligence
community and their US counterparts. End Summary.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par2" id="par2">¶</a>2. (C) Opposition PSD President Mircea Geoana met with
Director of National Intelligence Negroponte and Ambassador
Taubman October 29. Geoana prefaced the meeting by comparing
Romania's political scene to an ice skating competition;
Romania had performed superbly in the obligatory routines
needed for acceptance into all of the right clubs--WTO, NATO,
and now the European Union--but it was uncertain whether it
could do as well in the "freestyle" segment now that the
constraints of candidacy were lifted. He said Romanian
politics exemplified the lack of an overall strategic vision
among Romania's political leaders as well as a vicious
political culture that stressed the "total demolition" of
one's political enemies.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par3" id="par3">¶</a>3. (C) Geoana was skeptical about prospects for early
elections, noting that elections for the European Parliament
would likely occur in May 2007, with municipal elections in
June 2008 and a Presidential election taking place in 2009.
President Basescu was alone in pushing for early elections,
hoping to capitalize on his current high popularity ratings.
Basescu also feared that a weak PD showing in future
municipal elections could erode his prospects in the
Presidential contest. Geoana opined that a reshuffle among
coalition partners was possible depending on how long Prime
Minister Tariceanu survived. Tariceanu was weakened, but
still fighting for his political life. Geoana warned that if
Tariceanu goes, Romania could return to the "piranha
politics" of the 1990s, with Basescu installing a more
compliant puppet as Prime Minister.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par4" id="par4">¶</a>4. (C) Regarding future coalition combinations, Geoana said
that anything was possible, including continuation of the
PD/PNL alliance; a strong PD combined with satellite parties;
a PD/PSD alliance, or even a PSD/PNL government. Two likely
options included a "new majority" centered around Basescu, or
some sort of "grand coalition" akin to Germany. The latter
option (which he preferred) would use as a pretext the need
for mainstream Romanian parties to collectively meet the
challenges of EU membership. A PD/PNL merger was unlikely
given the liberals' pride in their 100-year history and
traditions. Geoana anticipated that the next two and half
years could prove an extraordinarily "unconstructive" time
for Romanian politics, with political paralysis and loss of
momentum after the January 1 EU accession. Romania risked
following in Poland's footsteps in mismanaging the first few
years after EU entry, providing an opening for extremist and
populist voices to dominate Romanian politics in the future.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par5" id="par5">¶</a>5. (C) <b>On attitudes towards the United States, Geoana said
that Romania was currently so pro-American that one had to
anticipate a future rebalancing between its
"transatlanticist" and "European" orientations. Geography
would never allow Romania to "relax" and hence the current
security construction with the United States was safe for at
least two more generations.</b> He added that the U.S. shouldn't
take Romania's future pro-US orientation for granted or
assume that it would be automatic. Geoana added that while he
didn't like the President, he had to admit that Basecsu was
"solid" with regards to his transatlanticist inclinations.
<b>Geoana also noted the need to develop new institutions to
anchor US-Romanian ties after USAID pulled out. These might
include the Black Sea Trust Fund, <u>the Aspen Institute</u>, even
the Harvard Club.</b> <b>He added that it was not a question of USG</b>
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<b>funding, since there was now a huge network of influential
Romanians who knew and loved the United States, including
many corporate leaders.</b>
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par6" id="par6">¶</a>6. (C) On Kosovo, Geoana said that Kosovar independence must
be linked to a "package" of measures for the Balkan region as
a whole. Bringing Croatia into the EU and NATO without
accounting for the rest of the Balkans was the wrong
strategy. With the right "package", the international
community could move relatively fast in terms of fostering
Kosovo's independence, but changing the status quo in Kosovo
must be backed by a renewed commitment to the Balkan region
on the part of NATO and the EU. Geoana was doubtful that
Macedonia or Alabania were capable of qualifying for EU
accession, thus handing NATO the default role of "mentor" to
these states. Geoana argued for a strategy other than just
"punishing" the Serbs, noting that the Serbian military
understood what had to be done, but the Serbian public was
still "intoxicated" with the idea of retaining Kosovo.
Geoana added that the upcoming German EU Presidency was an
opportunity for the United States to work closely with
Chancellor Merkel on Kosovo. The relative weakness or lame
duck status of other European leaders gave Merkel the
opportunity to demonstrate that she could be a "global
leader" on this and other issues. Geoana suggested that with
the right preparation, Merkel would be receptive to working
in tandem with President Bush on a renewed Kosovo strategy as
part of Germany's bid for a successful EU presidency.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par7" id="par7">¶</a>7. (C) Comparing Russia to "an athlete on steroids" Geoana
said that he saw both Ukraine and Moldova slowly bending to
growing Russian pressure, with Georgia increasingly isolated
through Russian energy politics and other "booby traps" from
Moscow. Geoana also accused President Basescu of harboring
plans to trade Moldovan unification with Romania for tacit
acquiescence to allowing Transnistria to become a Russian-run
"Kaliningrad" to the east. Geoana said Romania was wasting an
opportunity to work with new Eastern European members of the
EU in creating a "new European neighborhood policy" from the
Baltics to the Black Sea, acting as a Vilnius Group writ
large that could influence EU policy towards the East.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par8" id="par8">¶</a>8. (C) On intelligence matters, Geoana said that the PSD had
agreed to Senator Maior becoming the head of Romania's
internal service. He said that it was "refreshing" to see a
new generation take over the intelligence services given the
need to remove the taint of the Ceaucescu-era Securitate, but
both Maior and SRI Director Saftoiu were inexperienced and
"needed help." He said that he was trying to institute a
"new rule" in Romanian politics that the domestic
intelligence directorship always go to an opposition
politician, adding that this was a "precondition" for sending
"one of our best young guys" for the post. Geoana also
encouraged the DNI to promote contacts between Romanian
parliamentary committees overseeing intelligence matters with
their counterparts in the United States, as this would be an
investment in a more democratic Romania and a better
respected intelligence service.
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/10/06BUCHAREST1665.html#par9" id="par9">¶</a>9. (C) Comment: Mircea Geoana's views carrry some weight as
he is the heir presumptive in any future coalition government
involving the PSD. His views on many issues--including his
fundamentally transatlanticist orientation, his comments on
Kosovo, and remarks on the desirability of creating an
Eastern European bloc within the EU--track closely with those
shared by many of his ruling coalition counterparts,
underscoring that what separates the PSD from the ruling PD
and PNL are frequently matters involving personalities,
parties, and political nuance, not ideology or policy.
Geoana's skepticism regarding the likelihood of early
elections, on the other hand, reflects the fact that the
PSD's prospects are not encouraging if President Basescu
succeeds in getting an early election contest. End Comment.
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