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President Dilma Rousseff and her challenger on the right, Aécio Neves da Cunha:

Columnist Antonio Lassance suggests that three of Brazil's leading columnists are

warmongers for favoring U.S. intervention and critizing Rousseff's call for peace.

 

 

As Dilma Calls for Peace, Right Calls for 'Captain America' (Carta Maior, Brazil)

 

"Our foreign policy columnist 'gunmen' accuse Dilma of wanting to negotiate with terrorists and even recognizing the Islamic State. In so doing, they are firing blanks as part of a concerted effort to deprive the president of whatever handful of votes they can. ... How dare Dilma and Itamaraty [Brazil's Foreign Ministry] appeal for a peaceful solution to conflict? … It is most intriguing that a number of terrorists of the Islamic State have British accents, use weapons from the West, fight their archenemy Bashar al-Assad, and are historic rivals of Iran's Shiites."

 

By Antonio Lassance*

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Translated By Ricardo Farinha

 

October 7, 2014

 

Brazil - Carta Maior - Original Article (Portuguese)

As the wise saying goes, “If the adder could hear, and the blindworm could see, neither man nor beast could ever go free.”

 

Can you imagine if our foreign policy was run by a team headed by [sociologist-columnist] Demétrio Magnoli, [journalist-columnist] Reinaldo Azevedo and [film director] Arnaldo Jabor? [All are critics of President Dilma Rousseff and are considered right-wing].

 

The only question would where our troops would be deployed next week.

 

 

Moe, Larry and Curly neither read nor hear, yet they still didn't like the speech President Dilma Rousseff's delivered at the United Nations. A week later, the episode still triggers debate. 

 

How dare Dilma and Itamaraty [Brazil's Foreign Ministry] appeal for a peaceful solution to conflict, while the three stooges demand Captain America and Rambo?

 

That constitutional principle of Brazilian foreign policy eventually became, with the idiotic support of the party of the coup-plotting mass media, another legacy of Brazil's Labor movement.

 

If Azevedo, Magnoli and Jabor tell us that the history of Brazil actually began with Lula and Dilma, who are we to disagree?

Posted By Worldmeets.US

 

Our foreign policy "gunmen" have accused Dilma of wanting to negotiate with terrorists and even recognizing the Islamic State. In so doing, they are firing blanks as part of a concerted effort to deprive the president of whatever handful of votes they can [Dilma is now facing a runoff against pro-business Aécio Neves da Cunha.] Just how much is that effort worth?

 

It is most intriguing that a number of terrorists of the Islamic State have British accents, use weapons from the West, fight their archenemy Bashar al-Assad, and are historic rivals of Iran's Shiites.

 

In the 1980s, at the old Jornal Nacional, columnists Paulo Francis and Cid Moreira gave daily lessons outlining the Iran-Iraq War. We were taught to understand that within the Islamic world, the Shiites were wicked and Sunnis were nice.  

 

Even Dilma's Workers' Party was dubbed Shiite - in honor of the wicked of course. As time passed, the "nice" guys gave rise to al-Qaeda, and voila, the Islamic State.

 

On the eve of the presidential election, the attempt to stir controversy over Dilma's U.N. speech only goes to show that the "three columnists of the apocalypse" will do whatever it takes to massage their self-conceit as opinion makers and attack the blindingly obvious. After all, the blindingly obvious can only be Lulista (the political model associated with former President of Lula da Silva).

 

Really pathetic.

 

* Antonio Lassance is a political scientist.

 

SEE ALSO ON THIS:
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Carta Maior, Brazil:
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O Reporter, Brazil:
Brazil Passes NSA-Driven Web Law, Seeks Global Action at NetMundial
Folha, Brazil: Shaming the NSA is First Step to Ending 'State of Nature'

Folha, Brazil: NSA Scandal No More than a Temporary Annoyance

O Globo, Brazil: U.S. Must Employ Famed 'Checks and Balances' on NSA
Epoca, Brazil: America's 'Undemocratic' Surveillance is More Invasive than China's
Estadao, Brazil: Warning to Brazil Lawmakers Before Meeting with Snowden
Folha, Brazil: NSA's Great Power Challenge to Brazil
Folha, Brazil: 'In His Heart,' Obama Knows Rousseff is Right about Spying

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Posted By Worldmeets.US October 7, 2014, 8:59pm