SOBRE NATION-BUILDING E SUAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS

O influente NY Times de hoje relata algumas opiniões com interesse vinda do militar que chefia os treinos do novo exército Iraquiano:

The general's training efforts are the foundation of the Bush administration's plans for withdrawing troops as indigenous security forces grow in number and competence, and he spoke as Washington was boiling with debate over timetables for American troop reductions in Iraq.

"The Iraqi Army will be built by the end of this calendar year," General Dempsey declared at a Pentagon news conference.

General Dempsey said that by the end of the year, the army would be "fully capable of recruiting, vetting, inducting, training, forming into units, putting them in barracks, sending them out the gate to perform their missions." But he expressed concerns about the ability of the Iraqi ministries to carry out military operations independent of American support, and about "leader development.

Esta reportagem é bastante ilustrativa das complexidades do processo muito em voga chamado Nation-building. Se acham isto “giro” e querem estudar o assunto vão ao wikipedia e vejam como o termo remete para Regime change!!!!!

E como estas coisas não passam assim de um dia para o outro vejam lá que hoje o prestigiado FT europeu tem uma meditação, em forma de editorial, sobre Timor-outro caso onde parece que isto do Nation-building deu para o torto!! Leiam pois o essencial:

The UN, which administered East Timor from 1999 to 2002 after the final, destructive days of Indonesian control, will almost certainly need to organise elections next year.
No one wants another failed state.

There are two lessons to be learned from what has happened.

First, the international community must not rush for the exit and abandon its responsibilities as soon as it has what seems an acceptable government in place in a new or newly rebuilt nation. The UN now admits it ended its East Timor operation too soon, even though officials on the ground warned that the situation was fluid.

Second, foreign donors need to focus more attention on establishing a robust but politically neutral police force and an independent judiciary in any new nation in their care. East Timor's police, trained by several different countries with different agendas and different skills, disintegrated in the face of last month's crisis

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